South West Wales' independent builders' merchants, LBS Builders Merchants, has entered 80 employees into this year's 'Men's Health Survival of the Fittest' race in Cardiff. The event takes place on the 28th of September 2014, and will be the largest mass participation event in the company's history.

Independent business merchants, Mersey Building Supplies (MBS), has secured a two year framework agreement with Heyrod Construction with a value of £1million.

A Lincolnshire timber company has been fined after an agency worker lost the top of his finger in an unguarded machine.

Wrekin Products, suppliers of geosynthetics, manhole covers and gully grates, has produced two new brochures, which offer practical guidance for builders merchants and their customers on selecting and specifying the best product for the job.

Construction output showed no growth in July when compared with the previous month, but new orders rose at the fastest rate in a year, official statistics have revealed.

Encon Insulation and Marsh Industries have been announced as the final two key sponsors for the BMF All Industry Conference 2015, taking place in Malta next June.

Commercial director of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd, Joe Martoccia, will join The Performance Timber Products Group (PTPG) as its new chief executive officer, effective from 15 December 2014.

Covers Timber and Builders Merchants with a depot on the Quarry Lane Estate, Chichester, are not only sponsoring the Chichester Half Marathon in aid of Children on the Edge, but they are entering a team for the event too.

Cross-party consensus on how best to deliver new housing and infrastructure projects would result in 200,000 new jobs in the construction sector, according to the industry's leading organisations.

Twyford is launching a fun-oriented 'Bathroom Singer of the Year 2014' competition, designed to engage with a wide audience including merchants, distributors, retailers and consumers, as well as raise money for Children in Need.