Set your Microsoft Outlook calendars for Friday 17th July because the BMJ Industry Awards 2020 is going ahead as a pre-recorded live-stream event. The event will be hosted by Alan Dedicoat, the Voice of the Balls on the National Lottery TV shows and also the announcer from Strictly Come Dancing. …
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Builders can now start earlier and work later under new relaxations of regulations, designed to boost the building sector and help it emerge from the coronavirus lockdown. Planning permission deadlines will also be extended and planning appeals will be sped up, amongst measures announced by housing secretary Robert Jenrick today …
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Two employees from indeendent builder’s merchants, Howarth Timber & Building Supplies, have received their BMF Diploma in Merchanting certificate following three years of hard work. Hayley Parker, sales executive from Howarth Timber & Building Supplies’ Oldham branch and Thomas Howe, branch manager at the Manchester operation, started the programme in …
Read More »TG Concrete is part of the Tudor Griffiths Group has opened a brand-new concrete plant in Bridgnorth. The company has concrete plants across Shropshire, Cheshire, and North and Mid Wales and the new plant is next door to the TG Builders’ Merchants branch at Chartwell Park, in Bridgnorth. TG Concrete …
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Builders merchant Selco Builders Warehouse has finished re-opening its entire branch network and online services. The final three branches in St Albans, Orpington and Mitcham reopened their doors to tradespeople today (June 22), meaning all 68 branches – as well as Click & Collect and Click & Deliver – are …
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Builders Merchants sales during April were down -76.3% compared with April 2019, according to the BMF’s Builders Merchants Building Index, showing the dramatic initial effect of the Government’s Covid-19 Lockdown measures on sales through UK builders’ merchants. Tools took the biggest hit (-90.0%), with Kitchens & Bathrooms (-86.8%) close behind. …
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Selco Builders Warehouse is to invest £500,000 investment in the development of its branch colleagues later in the year. The builders merchant is inviting people working across its 68 branches to enhance their careers through its ‘Rising Stars’ initiative and it hopes to have 125 enrolled on the scheme to …
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South Wales independent builders’ merchant LBS Builders Merchants opened its 26th branch yesterday (June 15). The branch, on the Ty Verlon Trading Estate in Barry, is the family-run company’s furthest east branch in Wales. The fully-refurbished site, off Cardiff Road, will consist of a builders’ merchant, a Total Plumbing outlet …
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A cross-industry collaboration to support the sector’s road to recovery is keeping an eye on issues such as the current plaster shortage. The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) and the Construction Products Association (CPA) are working to pinpoint and address the key issues as more builders return to site. As the joint leaders …
Read More »A man was taken to hospital after falling from a warehouse roof and into a ditch at a builders merchant in Bradford. Police and paramedics were called to DIY Builders Merchants after reports of an attempted burglary where a man had fallen. The suspected burglar was taken to hospital with serious injuries …
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