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NBG is launching Merchant Pages, a new online product data service for its merchant partners and suppliers.

Manchester builders merchant Benchmark Building Suplies will join Saint Gobain's Loal Merchant Group, following its acquisition.

Following an employee’s tragic death, civil engineering and groundwork specialists Rudridge will be donating the £500 they would normally spend on Christmas cards and postage to charity.

Heating specialist Grant UK has sponsored a local children’s charity’s Winter Ball, joining the fundraising efforts for Julia’s House, which will be opening a new hospice in Devizes, Wiltshire, where Grant UK has its headquarters. 

Christine Harding, who retired from the BMF last year, was honoured with the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Builders Merchants Awards for Excellence in November. She is the first woman ever to have won this prestigious Award.

Stairparts manufacturer, Richard Burbidge have announced their latest Premier Centre member, Harlow Bros in Burton-Upon-Trent.

The South Molton branch of RGB Building Supplies has donated £1,000 to Children’s Hospice South West. The money was raised during the branch’s annual trip to Exeter Racecourse with customers on Tuesday November 1.

The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement borrowing plans to invest more in new housing, national and local roads, flood protection, and grammar schools have been welcomed by the Builders Merchants Federation.

MKM Building Supplies is looking to raise as much as £220m to bring in funds to underpin further expansion, the Financial Times reports.

Balcas Ltd is pleased to announce the sale of the business of its subsidiary Balcas Kildare Ltd, to the W.Howard Group Ltd.