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Employees at builders merchant group Travis Perkins have raised over £150,000 for learning disability charity Mencap over the last year.

Expamet Building Products are to spend £500,000 on new tooling and machinery at their Hartlepool site.

Members of the Get Britain Building coalition met with Assembly Members and representatives of the Welsh construction industry last week to launch the Get Wales Building campaign in the Welsh Assembly.

The Builders Merchants Federation is urging builders merchants and supplier members to write to their MPs in support of calls for a cut in the rate of VAT to 5% on building repair and maintenance work.

Builders merchants Travis Perkins might have to launch a £350m rights issue to see it through the rest of the downturn, according to analysts at Royal Bank of Scotland.

Global building materials group Lafarge, owners of the Blue Circle cement brand, have reached their first has CO2 emissions reduction objective two years in advance.

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins have begun a £2m redevelopment of one of their two sites in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Independent builders merchant chain MKM Building Supplies have opened a new branch at Lynn in Norfolk.

Around 12 parked cars and vans were crushed on Wednesday morning when scaffolding on the roof of the Minster Insulation branch in Exeter collapsed.

Heating and plumbing merchants HPS increased sales for 2008 by 10% to £30.88, although operating profits fell from £2.08m to £1.6m.