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Travis Perkins plc has posted its Q3 trading update for the three months to September 30 2026. The update reports that group overall performance in the third quarter continued in line with the first half year, with revenue in the quarter declining by 1.6%. UK construction output and volumes remain subdued, …

Heating manufacturer Grant UK is continuing to support local grassroots sport by sponsoring the Robins FC Under-8s boys football teams based in Swindon, Wiltshire. Founded in 1991, Robins Football Club is run by a team of volunteers who provide football training to children who live local to their grass and …

Heating manufacturer Baxi has donated supplies to TV’s DIY SOS, helping to creating a safe, comfortable and practical home for a 17-year-old cancer survivor and his family as part of a recently aired BBC DIY SOS project. Daniel was diagnosed with brain cancer after developing a tumour at the age …

Doorset manufacturer JELD-WEN UK has officially opened its new 294,000 sq ft manufacturing facility at Bessemer Park in Sheffield, following a £20 million investment in its UK operations. The purpose-built facility provides JELD-WEN with a larger, more flexible environment for manufacturing and distribution, with modern equipment and a layout designed …

Builder’s merchant Travis Perkins has launched CONNECT, a new carbon calculator designed to simplify Scope 3 reporting for customers. Scope 3 measures all indirect greenhouse gas emissions in a supply chain and downstream categories; from sourcing the raw materials for a product, through manufacturing to the point of delivery to …

Timber manufacturer Archwood Group has cut production time by 50% following a machinery upgrade at its Chirk site in North Wales.  The business, which operates the Richard Burbidge and Atkinson & Kirby brands, replaced its Maka ME machine with a Masterwood CNC machine as part of wider investment in manufacturing …

STARK Building Materials UK, distributors of building and construction materials, has launched a new careers website, Working at STARK, designed to show young people, career changers and returners the breadth of careers available across the building materials sector. The site puts STARK UK’s colleagues front and centre through testimonials and …

Colleagues and suppliers of Travis Perkins Managed Services (TPMS) took to the court to take part in a netball charity fundraiser for Bowel Cancer UK. More than 150 colleagues, suppliers and sponsors took part in the charity tournament hosted at Benham Sports Arena in Northampton, raising almost £5,000 for the …

Kitchen supplier Benchmarx, part of the Travis Perkins Group, is celebrating two decades of trading this year by announcing a raft of super savings for new and existing customers. As part of the company’s Big Savings Event, fitters will have access to bigger discounts than ever across kitchen units, taps, appliances, doors …

Travis Perkins managing director Richard Lavin has welcomed government plans to introduce vocational GCSEs, highlighting the need to attract more young people into construction and create clear pathways into careers. The government’s proposed education reforms will give young people the opportunity to study vocational subjects from the age of 14, …