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Builders merchant Jewson has launched a new initiative in partnership with Cricket Scotland which provides Scottish cricket clubs the opportunity to gain £150 worth of funding to spend on improving club facilities.

IKO PLC has achieved the environmental standards ISO 14001 and BES 6001 for its new mastic asphalt and hot melt factory in Derbyshire.

Hosting and cloud infrastructure provider Daily Internet has announced its subsidiary Netplan has entered into contracts worth approximately £440,000 with builders merchant MP Moran & Sons Ltd.

Warwickshire County Cricket Club has secured a two-year sponsorship deal with Birmingham-based Selco Builders Warehouse.

ReadSoft, provider of software solutions for back office process automation, has partnered with Border Merchant Systems to offer cloud-based accounts payable automation to UK builders merchants.

Builders merchant Travis Perkins and its specialist kitchens and joinery arm Benchmarx have chosen Macmillan Cancer Support as their charity partner for the next three years.

Counterfeit and inferior personal protective equipment (PPE) finding its way into UK workplaces is growing despite several warnings of the problem, according to an equipment supplier.

Independent builders merchant Rudridge has been sold to the Travis Perkins Group.

Interior designer-turned TV presenter Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen will be at the BMF All Industry Conference in Malta next June, giving a designer's perspective on the building materials industry.

The Department of Energy and Climate Control is extending vouchers from the first release of the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund (GDHIF) until Tuesday 31 March 2015.