Building materials distributor SIG posted a pre-tax loss of £21.6m in the six months to June 30 2026, a better result than the same time last year’s £33.1m losses. Turnover this time dipped to £1.29bn from £1.3bn. The company is pushing ahead with its efficiency drive to save £100m by …
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Six building product suppliers have been shortlisted for the inaugural Data Yard Data Excellence Award. The new award, sponsored by Epicor, was created by Data Yard, the industry owned data pool established by BMF and NMBS, to celebrate organisations that are helping to raise standards for product data across the …
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Builders merchant Elliotts has launched a new Help You Build Guarantee. The guarantee, available across Elliotts’ branch network, covers product availability, delivery performance and pricing. Under the new Help You Build Guarantee: If a guaranteed-range product is unavailable when a customer arrives to collect it, Elliotts will get it to …
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The voting window for the BMJ Industry Awards 2026 has now closed and the votes have been counted and verified. The winners and runners-up will be announced at the BMJ Industry Awards lunch on Friday September 25th at the Hilton Bankside Hotel, London. Tickets are available on this link. …
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Online timber merchant Timbersource is offering to supply the timber needed to recreate the Trojan Horse for a discounted price. Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ sailed to £65 million in the box office on its second weekend, and has driven online searches for mythology’s most famous horse, referenced in Homer’s epic, …
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Groundwork is progressing on the UK’s first carbon capture facility at Heidelberg Materials UK’s Padeswood site. The Padeswood carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility, in north Wales, is designed to capture around 95 per cent of the carbon emissions from the existing cement works, around 800,000 tonnes a year once running …
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Building materials distributor Lords Group Trading plc has released its H1 trading update ahead of the Group’s interim results in September. Covering the six month period up to June 30 2026, the H1 Summary reported a group revenue of £232.0 million (H1 2025: £232.8 million), a resilient performance bolstered by …
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The latest figures from the Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report, produced by MRA Research, show adjusted like-for-like value sales for May 2026 through specialist plumbing and heating merchants were up +1.3% compared to May 2025. Like-for-like volume sales were down -8.0%, while prices increased +10.1% year-on-year. With one less …
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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report, published by MRA Research in July, shows May 2026’s total like-for-like value sales (adjusted for trading days) were essentially flat, at -0.1% lower than May 2025. Like-for-like value sales were down -1.2% compared to the previous 12-month period (June 2024 to May …
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Yesterday the Government announced policy reforms to promote technical skills training as part of the education system. Huws Gray CFO Jon White was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, and discussed how Government support can provide more career opportunities within the construction industry. White proposed reforms to the Apprenticeship …
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