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Plant maker JCB is planning on cutting up to 150 jobs before Christmas after experiencing a downturn in global construction equipment demand.

Graf UK, business development manager Barrie Smith took part in a sponsored walk around London taking in all 26 properties from the Monopoly board and covering almost 20 miles.

Ian Haldane, managing director at independent builders merchant Haldane Fisher, has raised £20,000 for the Marie Curie cancer charity by taking part in the Rome Marathon earlier this year.

Bathroom manufacturer Twyford has joined the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) as a supplier member.

DIY chain Homebase is to close around 25% of its 323 stores by 2018 as it aims to cut costs.

Independent builders' merchants, MKM Building Supplies, has been listed in the Sunday Times' Grant Thornton Fast Track 250 for the first time.

Jewson has announced that it will be the lead sponsor for the Landscape Gardening and Carpentry competitions at The Skills Show 2014

The Brentford branch of Rudridge, suppliers of civil engineering and groundwork materials, recently sponsored a valued client and his wife as they embarked on a climb to the summit of Mount Snowdon, the highest mountain in England and Wales.

Continental Wood Products (CWP) has opened a stockyard within its associated sawmill Jarl Timber in Broakulla Sweden.

RGB Building Supplies is sponsoring an up and coming target pistol shooter, helping him to further his career and pursue his ambition to represent Great Britain at both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games.