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DIY chain Homebase has bought ailing bathroom specialist retailer Bathstore, to strengthen its bathroom offer to customers. The purchase of 44 Bathstore stores, website, intellectual property and stock was made by Homebase Rooms Ltd – a company which was formed on July 10 with Homebase CEO Damian McGloughlin and Homebase …

SR Timber director Sean Revill believes that the housebuilding industry may go into catch-up mode between now and when the UK is due to leave the European Union on 31st October and that that will benefit the rest of the sector. “I think house-builders will pull out all the stops between …

Four months in from its management buyout, national timber distributor Snows Timber has increased its operational hours at its Mansfield primary distribution hub to pick and mill more products, via a new shift pattern where the team start earlier and finish later. The changes mean increased the capacity to pick …

David Young, CEO of Bradfords Building Supplies, is the new chairman of the Builders Merchants Federation’s (BMF) South West region, taking over from Julian Milligan, managing director of Kellaway. Founded in 1770, Bradfords Building Supplies is believed to be the oldest builders’ merchant in Britain. Headquartered in Yeovil, the company …

Selco Builders Warehouse, the fast growing builders’ merchant, has acquired a former Carpetright warehouse in Salford, as part of its ongoing expansion plans. The company has taken a 15-year lease on the 19,671 sq ft former Carpetright premises with car parking on Regent Road, Salford.  When the trade centre opens …

Staff at Worcester Bosch have been giving donations and taking part in fundraising events, including the London half marathon and the Big Half in order to raise funds to help stop prostate cancer being a killer. Over the past 12 months, an amazing £33,100 has been raised for the charity. …

Under a Government led by Jeremy Hunt MP, there would be a Budget in the first week of September to prepare for the possibility of leaving the EU on a no-deal basis on 31 October, the Foreign Secretary has told the BMF. Hunt, alongside his Prime Ministerial rival Boris Johnson …

The largest independent builders’ merchant group in the south east has been created with the purchase of Godstone-based Fairalls by Cairngorm Capital. Fairalls joins Cairngorm Capital’s other builders’ merchant brands, Parkers Building Supplies and Stamco, to create a group with 24 branches across Surrey, Sussex and Kent. The combined turnover …

A campaign to tackle the growing problem of knife crime in Nottingham is being supported by the independent builders merchant Frank Key for the sixth year.    The ‘Taken Too Soon’ campaign works with local communities to help disadvantaged young people with the aim to tackle the increasing number of …

Gardner and Scardifield, the West Sussex-based builders merchants, electrical wholesalers and DIY suppliers, are congratulating themselves on being able to spot a rising cricket star when they see one. Jofra Archer, one of the outstanding England players who won the Cricket World Cup on Sunday evening, once played for the …