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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 …

Builders merchant chain Travis Perkins is moving forward with plans to offload its Wickes retail division. Simon King has been replaced as chief executive of the division by former Tesco executive David Wood and the group is said to be in the process of separating Wickes’ IT systems from the …

Actis has invested in a state-of-the-art machine which can produce its Hybris honeycomb  insulation material four times faster than its predecessor.   The 2,000 sq m plant has been built at the company’s headquarters in South West France and will cater for the growing number of British and European Actis …

A marketing executive from online builders’ merchant cmostores.com has created a tongue-in-cheek promotion video, filmed on his phone on a sunny Wednesday afternoon. Duncan Voice, spent three years as Insulation Superstore’s manager before moving into marketing. He said: “I get bored with how the construction industry markets their products, so …

Chichester-based independent builders and timber merchant Covers Timber and Builders Merchants has announced that it will continue with its sponsorship of Chichester Rugby FC for the the 2019/2020 season. Covers, which is based on Quarry Lane, has been sponsoring the club for the past few years. Its sponsorship deal includes …