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Topping off another very successful year for CRL Stone, the distributor was the proud recipient of a prestigious industry award, scooping the Best Surface accolade at the 2018 EK&B Business Awards. Seeing off fierce competition for the title, it was CRL Stone’s R enaissance collection that impressed the awards judges …

EGGER (UK) Limited has presented four local charities with a grand total of £25,000, raised by the company and its Hexham employees. The four charities were: The Hextol Foundation, Useful Vision, Chin Up Charity and Corbridge Youth Initiative. Bob Livesey, commercial director at EGGER Western European Division and chairman of …

Liverpool based family-owned timber and builders merchant Beers Timber Holdings bought Tonge Bridge Timber of Bolton. The purchase will increase group turnover to £37 million and the enlarged group will employ 160 staff across their depots in the North West. The group, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016, includes …

On The Tools, the online construction community and social media marketing agency, scored a hat-trick at this week’s Construction Market Awards, where it took home the award for; Best Digital Campaign, Best Social Media Campaign, and Best Distributor Marketing campaign for its contribution to the Jewson’s ‘Future Legends’ campaign. On …

  From offices and schools to most of the UK’s major shopping malls, when you walk in any of them, you’re walking on a floor laid by Bolton-based JCW. Now one of the biggest screeding firms in the UK, the business is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Screed isn’t sexy. But …

The UK’ s largest builders an plumbers merchant chain Travis Perkins Group  has announced that it is putting up its Plumbing and Heating division for sale. A strategy update issued this morning (December 4) said that Travis Perkins is seeking to simplify its structure and streamline its cost base, focus …

A gala members’ dinner at the Belfry Hotel, the final celebration marking the Builders Merchants Federation’s (BMF) Anniversary year, raised £6,000 to be shared between Variety, the Children’s Charity – the BMF’s charity of the year – and RAFA, the Royal Air Forces Association charity.  While the BMF has celebrated …

The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP has taken a strong stance on the issue of cladding and forcing the removal and reinstatement of a safer product.  For months James Brokenshire has been warning landlords of at-risk properties to get on …

Fortem Apprentice Shaheeb Mohammed has been named Construction Apprentice of the year at the Asian Apprenticeship awards. The national award event was held in Birmingham last night and celebrated talented young British Asians, their employers and learning providers from across the UK. From over 300 nominations, awards were presented in …

A sales graduate working for Howarth Timber & Building Supplies has recently been named Rising Star of the Year at the 2018 British Excellence in Sales Management Awards (BESMA), hosted by the Institute of Sales Management (ISM). Joshua Chaplin, who works for Howarth Timber’s Rochdale branch, was awarded the BESMA, …