TIMco has become the UK’s exclusive supplier to merchants and retailers for Fantom Hardware, creators of the award-winning Fantom Doorstop. Managing Director of TIMco, Simon Midwood comments: “We’re always on the look-out for new, innovative and effective products that would sell well with our existing customer base. We’ve found just …
Read More »
As part of an ongoing digitalisation programme the leading electrical distributor is aiming to improve the digital experience of its customers, so the new webpage can be viewed on a mobile, tablet or laptop in the same format as it appears on a PC desktop. This new responsive set up …
Read More »
Employee wellbeing is being compromised by a lack of understanding of how to implement effective programmes, reveals the latest research from the British Safety Council Only one in six (17%) organisations evaluate the impact of their health and wellbeing initiatives (source: CIPD). In nearly two thirds of companies (63%), other …
Read More »
Builders merchant group Travis Perkins has invested in 500 new JCBs worth more than £7m for its Tool Hire division. Travis Perkins has bought a fleet of JCB mini excavators and One Tonne High Tip site dumpers to strengthen its UK-wide tool hire business. This brings the company’s investment to …
Read More »
Pippa Latham was installed as the new Master of the Worshipful Company of Builders’ Merchants (WCoBM at Merchant Taylors’ Hall in the City of London at the end of October 2018. On the same evening Wardens Dame Fiona Woolf, D.B.E, DL and Stewart Pierce were elected to support the Master …
Read More »
The Builders Merchants Federation has announced that VELUX will be the Headline Sponsor for the 2019 Burns Supper, the BMF’s most popular and prestigious annual event in Scotland attended by over 300 people. The 2019 Burns Supper, which takes place on 25th January at the Double Tree Hilton Dunblane Hydro, …
Read More »
Baxi is set to make 2019 a year to remember, after confirming that the promotional warranties currently offered across its product ranges will be extended into the New Year and beyond. The offer includes 10-year warranties on the Platinum Combi and EcoBlue Advance Combi and seven-year warranties on the 600 …
Read More »Leading apprenticeship training organisation JTL had a highly successful night at the recent Asian Apprenticeship Awards held at the imposing Edgbaston Cricket Ground, the home of Warwickshire County Cricket Club. The organisation was awarded the Learning Provider of the Year Award for 2018 and one of its apprentices – Shabeeb …
Read More »
Dulux led the way at this year’s Painting and Decorating Show by showcasing the durability benefits of the Dulux Trade Diamond range range and opening up conversations around the move towards water based paints. Throughout the show the team demonstrated how to get the perfect finish with new, water …
Read More »The House of Lords will tomorrow, Wednesday 12th December, debate the Science and Technology Committee’s report “Off-site manufacture for construction: building for change. Among those listed to speak are several members of the Committee including Lord Fox, Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and Lord …
Read More »
Builders Merchants Journal – BMJ Publishing to Builders Merchants and the UK merchanting industry for more than 95 years