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Hertfordshire-based builders’ merchant, Brookers, is celebrating 15 years of successful partnership with National Buying Group (NBG) this summer, with the business reflecting on the benefits of shared experience and expertise from like-minded independents. Brookers is a family-owned trio of builders merchants and homeware stores in Hitchin and Stevenage, with its …

MKM has teamed up with plant and machinery company MHM Group to offer fusion powered generators as part of its Tool and Plant Hire offering. MHM’s MG 6000 SSY-Eco generators, which are designed to minimise air and noise pollution on construction sites, are being launched as a hire product for …

Jewson Partnership Solutions (JPS), a public sector building materials supplier, has donated £10,000 towards the development of a brand-new support centre for women in Scotland, which opens later this year. The Connect Hub from Simon Community, based in Glasgow, will serve as a unique and groundbreaking facility for women at …

NBG has welcomed five new Partners this month. The five new Partners include two new East London based merchants, Floyds Builders Merchant in South East London, a general merchant with a specialism in steel, and timber specialist T Chambers and Son based in Romford. In addition, Darlaston Builders Merchants near …

OB1 has notched up a record-breaking million-pound sales month in June 2023. OB1 Multi-Surface Construction Sealant & Adhesive was launched onto the market in early 2020 and since then has gone from strength to strength. The million-pound month in sales is a testament to OB1’s unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction …

Toolstation announces it has partnered with Rebuilding Lives UK to support the completion of a home renovation project in Macclesfield. Rebuilding Lives UK is a charity that supports survivors of domestic abuse coping with poor living standards and financial difficulties by providing partial or complete home maintenance and repair funding. …

Following clarification from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, about an indefinite extension to the use of CE marking for UK businesses, the Construction Products Association has warned that it does not pertain to the construction products sector. CPA chairman Peter Caplehorn says: “Rather, the situation for our sector remains the …

Civils & Lintels, part of the Huws Gray group, has invested more than £5m to increase its capacity and enhance its service levels to the UK residential sector. The business has created four regional distribution hubs for the lintels division  – including new facilities in Nottinghamshire and the South East …

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins has posted a fall of 2.5% in revenue and 31% in adjusted operating profts for the six months to June 30 2023. The announcement today (August 1) showed sales were £2,472m and operating profit £112m  reflecting weak market volumes in private domestic RMI and new …

Glenigan’s August report finds that residential construction starts decreased by 26% but non-residential project starts fell by 38%. The report suggests that in the third quarter, construction start performance continues to fall continuing a downward trend which have been consistent over the past year. Allan Wilen, Glenigan’s economic director, said: …