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Nuneaton-based Triton Showers, the UK’s leading shower manufacturer, has pledged support to Nuneaton Cricket Club as its main sponsor for the 2019 season. The sponsorship deal will see the Triton Showers logo premiere on the club’s main scoreboard and the team’s kit throughout this season’s cricketing period. Making its debut …

The future of the construction industry will be on show at an event next week when the hard work of some of most skilled and talented apprentices from across the region will be recognised at an awards ceremony. The Swansea Bay Construction Support Group’s inaugural awards ceremony will take place on 20 …

Five colleagues from Scott Parnell in Witham have helped raise over £5,000 for charity following a 55-mile bike ride.   Rachael Adamson, Joe Folan, Jenny Burton, Alan Sweap and Mark Simpkins, who were part of a cycling team called Charlie’s Angels, took on the Anderson Charity Bike Ride, a picturesque …

Ibstock Brick has celebrated the achievements of its apprentices through its annual Apprentice of the Year Award. And for the first time, it was decided to present the award to two outstanding apprentices: Jonathan Hackett and Phillip Atherton. Eight candidates were shortlisted from the UK’s largest brick manufacturer’s apprenticeship programme, …

A new ‘buddy’ system being introduced by NMBS will give independent merchants greater support from the Buying Society’s sales team. The system, which went live in June, will see each member of NMBS’ external sales team buddying up with someone from the internal sales team. Merchants will then receive dedicated …

National Merchant Buying Society (NMBS) has been named a Fundraising Champion 2019 by the construction industry charity CRASH, in recognition of its fundraising efforts over the last year and as one of CRASH’s most loyal supporting organisations. Awarded to just a handful of organisations, the charity’s initiative recognises those who …

After weeks of speculation, Glow-worm has revealed the destination of its 2020 mystery trip – Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Vietnam. With 80 pairs of tickets up for grabs, installers can secure a space on the plane for themselves and their plus-ones by hitting their personalised target of Glow-worm …

A Weksh developer collapsed into administration leaving more than 200 creditors and 40 workers yet to be paid, when it lost a contract worth 34% of its business. GM Jones, in Llanrwst, had been carrying out commercial and public sector schemes across the Conway region. Yet the end of the …

The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) has announced the launch of its latest special interest Forum, which will focus on Kitchens and Bathrooms bringing together members with responsibility for these important product areas  The new Kitchen and Bathroom Forum will be chaired by Paul Bence, managing director of the George Bence …

A continuing increase in UK housebuilding was not enough to offset a decline in UK construction companies’ output during May, according to the latest monthly statistics from the  IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction Total Activity Index. A renewed decline in total business activity during May included lower volumes of commercial work …