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Colleagues at builders merchant Selco Builders Warehouse have raised £1,000 for its nominated charity by baking creative cakes. For each cake baked, Selco pledged to donate £10 to its charity for 2020, Global’s Make Some Noise. Prizes were given for three winners, which included desert versions of a Selco delivery …

Following the coronavirus-fuelled cancellation of this year’s event, independent builders merchant buying society NMBS has announced the new dates for its All-Industry Conference. The next NMBS All-Industry Conference will now take place on 16th to 19th June 2022, and will be held at the same venue – the Hilton Sorrento Palace Hotel …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …