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Grant & Stone Group is pleased to announce that it has acquired Devondale Electrical Distributors (Devondale), expanding its network of specialist electrical wholesalers and complementing the recent acquisitions of builders’ and plumbers’ merchants in the South West of England. Established in 1981, Devondale is the largest independent electrical wholesaler in …

James Burrell have continued their recent wave of investment into their Rotherham Branch by expanding the South Yorkshire Key Account team and their office space. There is now a team of five experienced members of the Key Accounts team that specialise in providing a high level of service to large …

Grant UK’s Training Academy in Devizes has reconfigured part of their facilities onsite to allow for the development of a new training area which will be used for the delivery of online training courses via the Grant eLearning Academy. The Training Academy at Grant UK’s head offices in Devizes, Wiltshire, …

Builders merchant Lords is investing into the complete redevelopment of its Beaconsfield branch  to increase the range of new services and improved customers facilities. Work began on site on 1st of June, with old trade counter and sheds being replaced with a two-storey shop/showroom and warehouse. An improved customer experience …

Ex-Blues and Baggies striker and local philanthropist Geoff Horsfield was the special guest for the grand opening launch event of MKM Building Supplies new state-of-the-art Birmingham North branch. The UK’s largest independent builder’s merchant, celebrating its 84th new branch opening across the UK, invited the football legend to mark the …

Acquisitive builders merchant group Huws Gray has bought independent Higgins Building Supplies Ltd based in Wellingborough & Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire. The family-owned builders’ merchant, which now operates from a 4.5-acre site and landscaping centre in Wellingbrorough plus a third site in Irthlingborough, was established in 1866 by Thomas Henry Higgins, and …

Imperial Bricks now requires all of its manufacturing partners meet and evidence at least four key internationally recognised standards for product quality, sustainability and ethical supply. In fact, every one of Imperial’s factory partners meet at least six of the eight standards listed in the Brick Development Association’s new ‘Brickmakers …

Builders merchants trade association The Builders Merchants Federation has teamed up with Apprenticeship Management Group to launch a new level three apprenticeship. The Level 3 Team Leader Supervisor apprenticeship will support those taking the initial step to becoming a manager, or who have recently been appointed to a junior management …

Livery company The Worshipful Company of Builders’ Merchants has donated nearly £90,000 during the Covid-19 pandemic to a wide range of causes. Additional donations were made to those supporting the NHS and frontline key workers, as well as trade charities such as the Rainy Day Trust, Crash, Lighthouse Construction Industry …

Steve Ingham, CEO of PageGroup, the specialist recruitment company, is to make a return visit to the BMF All Industry Conference. Ingham’s presentation will focus on creating opportunity.  PageGroup’s people first culture has been strengthened by successfully adapting to volatile market and cultural changes, delivering a threefold increase in turnover and …