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As part of a new campaign to increase support to the Fire and Rescue service, Aico are offering free support in the form of CPD training and the use of their facilities to each of the 52 Fire and Rescue Brigades in the UK. The campaign will focus on offering …

Online construction products merchant CMOStores.com has posted turnover of £23m from January to June 2020, and profits up 126 per cent when compared to the same six month period in 2019. The uplift in sales in early 2020 meant that CMOStores.com not only retained all existing staff on full-time contracts …

Middlesbrough-based independent builders’ merchant Atkinson Northern, parent company of JT Atkinson, saw turnover for the year to 31 December 2019 rise to £91m, up from £84.2m in 2018. Pre-tax profit also increased to £7.7m, up from £5.9m. The business closed all 28 of its branches from 24 March 2020 to …

Ferguson — US-based parent company of UK plumbers merchant chain Wolseley UK — saw revenue fall 0.9% for the year to 31 July to $21.8bn (£17bn). Despite this, the plumbing giant is to resume paying a year-end dividend to shareholders. Profit before tax fell 4.8 per cent to $1.26bn (£980m) …

Distributor SIG posted a first-half pre-tax loss of £125.4m for the first half of 2020, compared with a £2.3m profit for the same period in 2019. Turnover, at £840m during the period, was down from £1,113m. A new management team is now in place with a new growth strategy and …

Heating manufacturer Grant UK is taking on the sponsorship of the Devizes Town Youth Football Club Under 12’s Team for the 2020/21 season. The Devizes Town YFC is an organisation run by volunteers who provide football to boys and girls between the ages of 3 years up to 18 years. …

A new show from building trade radio station Fix Radio,  is being sponsored by British Gypsum and features Chris Frediani, the plasterer from BBC TV’s DIY-SOS as host The Plastering Show will air on Fridays at 1pm each week and be a real focal point for thousands of plasterers up …

Work has started on a Doncaster hospital’s new memorial ‘rainbow garden’ thanks to Polypipe Building Products and other local businesses. Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Rainbow Garden appeal was set up to establish memorial gardens in both Doncaster and Bassetlaw to remember those who lost their lives to Covid-19. Doncaster-based …

Builders merchant Selco Builders Warehouse is sponsoring the Osbaldwick Cricket Club, who play in the York & District Senior Cricket League. A cricket club in York is hoping to leave its rivals stumped after securing sponsorship from one of the UK’s leading builders merchants. First team player, committee member and …

Quinn Industrial Holdings is to rebrand as Mannok , a move which will also affect the Quinn Building Products and Quinn Packaging  brands. The company issued a statement which said that the rebrand to Mannok marks the culmination of a 5-year transformation and investment programme that has repositioned the business …