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Builders Store Ltd in Cheadle, Cheshire has experienced an increase in profits as a result of joining independent merchants buying group IBC last year, the company has revealed.

Chandlers Building Supplies is asking schools to help them paint a mural that will go on display in the merchant's new Sustainable Building Solutions Centre at its Lewes branch.

Independent builders' merchant MKM Building Supplies has launched a trade account aimed at apprentices.

An extra £100m has been made available by the Government for the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund, closed earlier this year.

Independent builders merchant Joseph Parr Group has purchased two new showrooms in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Hope Construction Materials, the independent supplier of aggregates and concrete, has opened its first new, greenfield quarry as part of its UK development plan.

Independent builders merchant South Coast Building Supplies has opened a third site in Hampshire, just six years after setting up.

Independent builders merchant Elliotts and several suppliers supported the Angela Tugwell Memorial Golf Day last month, held in memory of the late wife of Elliotts' tool manager Ted Tugwell.

Strong output growth was maintained across the UK construction sector in September, but new order growth and job creation both eased to their lowest rate for four months, according to the latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI.

David Cameron's pledge to build 100,000 new homes for young first time buyers has come under scrutiny from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), questioning who will build them.