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Another strong set of results for the final quarter of 2016 completes a further year of growth in sales of building materials through UK builders merchants. The latest figures from the BMF’s Builders Merchants Building Index Q4 report show that generalist merchants generated annual revenues in excess of £5.44bn with sales value growth of 5.2% on 2015.

MKM’s Honiton branch has celebrated its half-year anniversary and launch of its new kitchen and bathroom showroom with a special open evening.

T-Rex is getting stuck into more broadcast activity, with a ferocious £1million+ campaign of high profile ad campaigns, starting this March.

A comprehensive suite of 17 videos from the Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) Round Table Debate are now live at www.bmbi.co.uk. The videos cover six main topics, with trailers for each one so viewers can get a flavour of the discussions.

Bond It is set to build on its success as one of the UK’s fastest growing manufacturers of sealants, adhesives and building chemicals with a further six figure investment into its business.

Leading buying group The IPG, has welcomed member number 138, AC Bathrooms & Heating Limited. Based in Sheffield, the company caters mostly for those in the plumbing trade and the business has seen impressive growth in the bathroom and boiler sectors, covering projects in a 30-mile radius.

Three interactive industry workshops to be held at the BMF All Industry Conference in Budapest in June will give delegates an opportunity to experience one of the BMF’s most popular recent innovations.

TrueCommerce, a HighJump company and a global provider of trading partner connectivity and integration solutions, announced that Travis Perkins plc, one of the UK's leading distributors of building materials, has implemented the TrueCommerce EDI solution, OneTime.
 

Kevin Gardner is to retire from Shropshire builders merchant Tudor Griffiths Group after over 35 years’ service.

Just over 1,700 apprentices will be picking up their free toolkits valued at around £250 each on Thursday 9th March courtesy of leading work-based training company JTL and its partners Super Rod, Klein Tools and 3M for its electrical apprentices and Monument Tools for its heating and plumbing apprentices.