News

A team of adventurous employees from surface water management experts, ACO, are participating in the Bear Grylls Survival Challenge in London, on 30^th September 2017.

The National Buying Group, the UK’s premier buying group for independent builders’ merchants has signed an agreement with Atkinson & Kirby for the supply of solid and engineered timber flooring, which started in July 2017.

Independent builders merchant Kellaway Building Supplies has relocated its branch at Ashton to a new larger site in Bedminster,

The current skills shortage is one of the biggest challenges facing the construction industry today, as the sector continues to struggle in meeting the demand for skilled professionals.

This years fourth Annual Parker Building Supplies Charity Golf Day, trade morning and celebratory dinner, has matched last year’s record breaking sum and raised an amazing £25,000 in aid of their partner charity, Teenage Cancer Trust.

This October, National Home Security Month (NHSM) is returning for its fifth consecutive year, highlighting the importance of home security to British consumers nationwide.

Eight of nine successful TFT Woodexperts’ students from major timber merchant James Latham plc received their Level 4 Certificates in Wood Science & Technology in a special ceremony held at Leicestershire County Cricket Club on 31st July.

Tim Rowbottom of Collier & Catchpole Ltd has been elected to the Board of the Builders Merchants Federation with effect from 1^st September 2017. He replaces Kevin Fenlon of RGB who stepped down due to work commitments having served a three-year term of office.

Sales for UK builders merchants remained positive during the second quarter of 2017, according to the latest data from the BMF’s Builders Merchants Building Index.

Nicole Sykes, Head of EU Negotiations at the CBI will look at the implications of Brexit at the Builders Merchants Federation’s Members’ Day in September.