Specialist private investment firm Cairngorm Capital has added independent builders merchant Grant & Stone to its portfolio. Established in 1987, Grant & Stone has three specialist building, plumbing and electrical divisions, giving it 29 branches across the Thames Valley, consisting of builders’ merchants, electrical wholesalers, plumbers’ merchants, timber merchants, as …
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Marley Alutec, the UK leader in innovative aluminium rainwater and eaves solutionsis reducing delivery times from five working days to two working days for the company’s most popular product ranges. Effective immediately, the lead times for selected products in Marley Alutec’s Evolve, Traditional, Aligator, Tudor and Elite ranges have been …
Read More »Covers Timber and Builders Merchants will be offering tradespeople the chance to win free pizza delivered to their workplace on every last Friday of the month. All hungry hopefuls need to do is visit Covers’ Facebook page between 7.30am and 11.30am on the last Friday of the month, post …
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Covers Timber and Builders Merchant in Chichester has agreed to sponsor women’s footballer Agnes Laczkovszki for the 2019/2020 season. Agnes plays for Chichester City Ladies and Girls Football Club. As part of the agreement, the company’s logo will be displayed on the back of Agnes’s shirt. Sam Ashton, vice chairman …
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The ‘Regional Driver of the Year’ awards have been announced and handed out by nationwide distributor of insulation and interior building products, CCF at the Travis Perkins Plc ‘Driver of the Year’ awards ceremony. Recognised for outstanding driving within the organisation the drivers awarded these titles were: Kevin Bullard, CCF …
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Graham Plumbers’ Merchant has recently launched a useful taps bar in all its bathroom showrooms across the country. Making it far easier for customers to find the right design and aesthetic first time, a variety of taps can be removed from the display and placed on a basin or bathtub …
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The inaugural Kitchen and Bathroom Forum hosted by the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) took place at Roca’s new conference and showroom facility in Leicester on 12 November. Newly elected Chairman, Paul Bence (managing director of the George Bence group) led the proceedings to a full-house of 74 members. Presentations included …
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Superglass has completed the redevelopment of its Stirling manufacturing site. The investment, which at £37million is one of the largest in Scottish engineering and manufacturing in recent years, was announced in December 2017. Now complete, it will double the site’s capacity to around 60,000 tonnes of glass wool insulation annually. …
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When homeless and vulnerable young people in Blackburn need help, they turn to Nightsafe, a local charity which offers them a caring and supportive environment to keep them safe from harm at critical times in their lives. In October, working alongside BBC Children in Need and DIY SOS: The Big …
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Builders merchants trade association, the Builders Merchants Federation has received a Bronze Award for demonstrating its support for the Armed Forces community through the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. The scheme encourages employers to support the defence community and highlights companies that share the same values as the armed forces. To …
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