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Builders and plumbers merchant group Travis Perkins increased revenue by 4.6% to £6.22bn in the 12 months to December 31 2016, the group’s year-end results have revealed.

Students from some of the UK’s top universities have begun to submit their entries for the inaugural Heatrae Sadia Design Awards.

John Newcomb, MD of the Builders Merchants Federation, is one of the top business leaders in the West Midlands shortlisted in the prestigious IoD Director of the Year Awards. 

Redland is launching a competition to find the 2017 Redland Apprentice of the Year. The newly launched competition is open to all roofing apprentices who are currently enrolled with one of Redland’s participating colleges or training groups within the company’s Young Redland Roofer student support programme. *

Baxi is sponsoring Bradley Rogers, Baxi installer and member of the Baxi Works loyalty scheme, who will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Leukaemia care UK this June.

Briggs Equipment has pledged to support current and former members of the Royal Navy, the British Army and the Royal Air Force by signing up to the Armed Forces Covenant.

Small construction firms got busier in the first quarter of 2017, despite growing concerns over the cost of labour and materials.

FMB’s State of Trade Survey for Q1 2017,

Insulation distributor Belgrade Insulations has been featured in Yorkshires Fastest 50 Awards.

Timber and builders merchant group Howarth Timber has been placed at 4th in the annual Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100.

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A modern Industrial Strategy that showcases the construction industry, based on a clearly-defined, well-articulated mission to give it purpose, drive and direction, is the message to ministers from the Builders Merchants’ Federation (BMF).