I think the king is but a man, as I am, the violet smells to him as it doth to me Regular readers of this column will know I do love a parade, and a bit of pomp and circumstance. So, no surprise that I was settled on my sofa …

Kudos Shower Products has appointed Rob Stead as senior business development manager for the business. He joins the company with over 30 years of experience in bathroom B2B sales. As senior business development manager, Stead  will be focussed on working with the company’s distributor partners In growing the number of …

Builders merchant group Lords plc saw revenues rise 23.9% to £450m for the year ended December 31 2023, it was revealed to investors this morning. The merchanting division in particular did well, posting revenues up 69.2% at £220.8m, with strong like-for-like growth of 17.4%. Plumbing and heating revenues were -1.5% …

Brick maker Forterra has dispatched the first load of bricks from its new Desford factory in Leicestershire, the biggest and most efficient manufacturing plant in Europe. The company has invested £95 million into future-proofing the factory to achieve outstanding overall equipment effectiveness while upgrading production capacity to 185 million bricks …

The Post Office did not quite get away with it. They almost did. You may think it could never happen to you – or to someone you love … you would be wrong. It happened to me Mention the words Postmaster or PostMistress and what spring to mind is someone …

Travis Perkins Group, has announced the appointment of Dave Castle as the new managing director of its specialist pipeline and heating solutions business, BSS, and as a member of the Group Leadership team. The appointment is effective from May 1st 2023. Currently regional managing director for South West and Wales …

Along with the Work Trousers range, Snickers’ hoodies and sweatshirts are the company’s most popular products. Designed specifically for professional craftsmen and women, they include ‘full zip’ or ‘overhead’ styles, ideal as mid-Layer working clothes. They fit well with a jacket on chilly days and can be worn as an …

Carl Kammerling International (CKI) added the Clipacore brand to its CKI subsidiary Nerrad Tool.  A tool system designed to eradicate a common and dangerous problem for users of core drills, Clipacore is a clip release system which allows users to change and remove core bits from drills quickly and effortlessly. Dismantling a …

ERA has introduced cardboard packaging that is fully recyclable from 1st April 2023. The newly designed cardboard packaging features euro hooks that enable merchants to stock its hardware within retail displays in the same way as its previous plastic clamshell and bag packaging. Every aspect of the recyclable packaging is …

More than 280 exhibitors at this year’s National Merchant Buying Society exhibition welcomed 558 independent merchant member companies and 1,084 visitors through the Coventry Building Society Arena doors on 19 and 20 April. Chris Hayward, chief executive officer at NMBS, said: “The 55th NMBS Exhibition was our most successful show yet, …