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National charity Band of Builders has launched a new hardship fund to help tradesmen and women who have been affected by the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The charity, which carries out projects and adaptations to help UK tradespeople and their families affected by illness or disability, has launched the fund to …

Skipton builders merchants Merritt & Fryers Ltd have acquired fellow family-rum firm Briggs & Duxbury in Barnoldswick. Director Rachel Fryers says: “We are delighted to be bringing our two firms together under the Merritt & Fryers brand at this time. We plan to retain jobs for all the existing staff …

Can you throw a tea-bag into a mug from a distance of at least one metre? That’s the challenge that Chandlers Building Supplies and Parkers Building Supplies have laid down for customers, suppliers, and other merchants, in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Set to rival the Ice Bucket Challenge …

The Builders Merchant Building Index, a joint enterprise between GfK, the Builders Merchants Federation and MRA Marketing, has won the ‘Best Use of Research & Insight’ award at this year’s Construction Marketing Awards. The index now reaches decision-makers, advisors and influencers; economists; analysts and commentators; and in the past twelve …

Builders merchants trade association the Builders Merchants Federation has announced its first speakers in the Industry Forum debate at the BMF All-Industry Conference 2021, which takes place next June in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Andy Mitchell, CBE, Chief Executive Officer of Tideway and Co-Chair of the Construction Leadership Council and Peter Hallitt, …

Independent builders merchant Bradfords Building Supplies has won a hat-trick of awards at the online Construction Marketing Awards 2020. Bradfords’ ‘We’ve Got Your Back’ campaign scooped victory in the categories for Best Use of Advertising, Best Distributor Marketing and Best Big Budget Campaign. Launched in May, Bradfords’ ‘We’ve Got Your …

“The Government’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution is a call to arms for individuals and organisations to fight for the future of our planet – we must do whatever it takes to protect our world, and we must do it now,” says Mike Tattam, Sales & Marketing …

Knauf Insulation has unveiled ambitious commitments for 2025 as part of its new global sustainability strategy ‘For A Better World’. The strategy outlines the company’s long-term goals of ‘Putting People First’, ‘Creating Better Buildings’, ‘Achieving Carbon Zero’ and ‘Delivering a Circular Economy’. “Responding to the climate crisis is one of …

Builders merchant buying group NMBS has announced new dates for the 2021 NMBS Exhibition, which will now take place from September 8 to 9 2021. The 2020 Exhibition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and NMBS now hopes that social distancing restrictions will no longer be as arduous in …

Builders merchants trade association the Builders Merchants Federation has broadly welcomed the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Spending Review yesterday (November 25), but argues that it should have gone further. BMF CEO, John Newcomb said: “The Chancellor was clear that the health emergency is not yet over and the economic emergency …