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Builders merchant Selco Builders Warehouse is helping a local hospice which supports patients with life-limiting conditions from across north east Worcestershire.   Primrose Hospice, in Bromsgrove, requires £1.7 million per year to maintain its services and aims to raise a portion of those funds through selling donated items on eBay …

The Timber Trade Federation is urging builders and timber merchants to uplift staff knowledge about treated timber, particularly the up-coming regulatory change to Use Class 4 (UC4) timber treatments for any material that will be used on the ground or in ground contact, such as decking bearers. The TTF is …

Builders merchants Thompson & Parkes celebrated the first anniversary of its Stourport branch today (September 14). The branch, which supplies DIY, decorating and gardening tools and accessories is complemented by the company’s other two branches in Kidderminster and Oreton branches, which offer building, timber, landscaping and plumbing products. There is …

North-east independent builders’ merchant James Burrell has just ordered a further six new-generation Mercedes-Benz Arocs six-wheeler trucks. The Gateshead-based company operates from a network of 10 branches located throughout the North-East and Yorkshire. Each day its 36 trucks – the majority of them 26-tonne Mercedes-Benz dropsiders with cranes – deliver …

Paving manufacturer Tobermore, based in Northern Ireland, is to invest £30million and create 95 jobs as part of its plans to rapidly grow its business over the next four years. Diane Dodds, NI Minister for the Economy made the announcement during a site visit this week. She said: “During such …

The UK Green Building Council has published a new report, ‘Building the case for net zero: A feasibility study into the design, delivery and cost of new net zero carbon buildings’. This new report takes a lucid look at the implications of designing for net zero today. The study looked …

Revenue at builders and plumbers merchant Travis Perkins plc dropped 20% in the first half of the year, pulling operating profits down 81%, leaving it with an operating loss of £92m, the group announced this morning (September 8). The merchanting division, which covers the brands Travis Perkins, Benchmarx, Keyline, CCF …

Builders merchants trade association the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) is encouraging Members to take advantage of the government’s £2 billion pound Kickstart scheme by providing full administrative support to simplify the engagement process and enable every BMF member to participate. Kickstart is the government’s post-Covid regeneration tool to enable employers …

North London-based independent merchant Fayers, a member of the Fortis independent merchant buying group, is the first independent merchant to take on the new online showroom platform from shower specialist Lakes Showering Spaces. to its trade customers. Lakes launched its virtual showroom concept in July as a pioneering selling tool …

British shower products manufacturer, Kudos, is continuing its £650,000 investment plan to expand its UK manufacturing capability. Earlier this year, the company moved its finished goods stock from its manufacturing site in Cumbria to a new 60,000 sq ft warehouse facility in Sandbach, Cheshire, a move that gives easier access …