The Toolstation Finance Team will be walking 563 miles throughout the month of March to help raise funds for its designated company charity partner, Macmillan Cancer Support. The 13 colleagues participating in the fundraising activity are all currently based at the Toolstation support centre in Bridgwater. Each will be tracking …

Independent builders merchant James Burrell Builders Merchant has installed a defibrillator in each of its branches across the North East and Yorkshire. The company have also invested time into training as many members of staff as possible, with the aim of eventually having each employee trained on how to use …

Irish materials handling company Combilift celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The company decided to also commemorate St Patricks Day, and encouraged its staff and their machines to get involved.

Time is running out for the UK’s top builders merchants to get their most up-to-date details into BMJ’s 2023 edition of Trailblazers. The 2023 edition of BMJ’s Trailblazers will be published with the April edition. Once again, it will feature the top UK builders merchants, those turning over more than …

Made from the long-lasting, innovative Sorona® performance fabric and CORDURA® for long-lasting comfort, functionality and sustainability, the newest Work Trousers for men and women from Snickers Workwear are Class 1 and Class 2 certified. They also come with the patented KneeGuard® system and CORDURA® reinforcement in the knees and pockets. Sorona® is a recyclable, bio-based fibre …

Independent merchant buying group h&b has appointed a new CEO, Peter Fletcher. Although he joined a plumbing & heating merchant in Nottingham at 16, he has spent the majority of his career on the manufacturing sector. Recently he was Divisional sales director with Genuit Group Residential Division, aka Polypipe. That, …

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly If only life came with an edit-button. Once you’ve invented something, it’s quite hard to un-invent it again, now matter how tempting it must be. Such …

The BMJ Industry Awards is the only merchant award programme that is decided by a public vote amongst industry participants. This year, it has partnered with the Institute of Builders Merchants, as a way of highlighting the importance of young people to the future of merchanting. The IoBM, which is …

A new Executive Board has been established to drive growth for the PaintWell group, bringing together the group’s Kent Blaxill, PaintWell and Promain businesses. The PaintWell Group bought Kent Blaxill in November 2022. Keith Reville is appointed chief executive officer of Paintwell, Kent Blaxill and Promain. He joins from Rubix, …

Made from the long-lasting, innovative Sorona® performance fabric and CORDURA® for long-lasting comfort, functionality and sustainability, the newest Work Trousers for men and women from Snickers Workwear are Class 1 and Class 2 certified. They also come with the patented KneeGuard® system and CORDURA® reinforcement in the knees and pockets. Sorona® is a recyclable, bio-based …