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BSS Industrial have started celebrating the centenary year of their own brand BOSS,by giving one lucky customer a trip to Las Vegas.

The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) is lending its weight to the protest against the 2p rise in diesel duty planned for October.

Travis Perkins merchant brand CCF appointed Kieran Griffin as managing director at the beginning of this month.

This year's Interbuild will see a dedicated kitchens and bathrooms showcase for the first time.

Hepworth Building Products have announced the Glasgow branch of Burdens as the winner of its first Premier Plus Clay Stockist award.

Keen golfers struggled through the wet weather yesterday in the second round of BMJ's Golf Classic at Little Aston Golf Club, Sutton Coldfield.

A complaint brought by Kubota about an advertisement in which JCB claimed its Mini Excavator was the "UK's best selling mini" has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Jewson have launched their own-brand range of power tools across all 500 branches across the UK, which they say are equal to or better than the branded alternatives in the same price bracket.

Cyril Brown, the man who oversaw the creation of today's Builders Merchants Federation from the old National Federation of Builders and Plumbers Merchants, died in Germany last month at the age of 87.

Overall the first quarter has been a positive one for Wienerberger, according to their latest financial statement, despite a mixed bag of results geographically as the UK and Germany turn in weaker forecasts.