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A-Plant have found a winner of their competition to design this year's corporate Christmas card for them: 12-year old Amelia Dickinson, daughter if a mobile fitter at the company's Rotherham depot.

Sales of building materials at builders merchants throughout the country were up by 0.9% for the three months August to October 2007, when compared to the same three month period in 2006, according to figures just released by the Builders Merchants Federation.

Budget supermarket chain Aldi, have launched their own range of power tools under the Power Craft brand.

Thompson Building Centres will be distributing hundreds of presents this festive season to local hospitals, hospices and care homes.

Midlands Builders and Timber Merchants, Carver (Wolverhampton) Ltd, main sponsors and underwriters of the Carver Wolverhampton City Marathon, recently presented almost £25,000 raised from this year's event to four charities.

Travis Perkins have reported strong figures in their trading update ahead of the close of their financial year on December 31, but warn of a slowdown in 2008.

Cemex has denied reports that they are to cut 10% of their workforce worldwide, while one UK firm has also announced some job losses may be imminent.

Lafarge Cement has recently supplied cement for a record-breaking concrete flooring project at a Tesco in Scotland.

PTS has appointed John Vaughan as its new central regional managing director.

In a corporate partnership with the NSPCC, Midland Lead signed a commercial agreement, allowing £1 of every tonne of lead sheet sold in the months October and November 2007 to be donated to the children's charity.