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The Builders Merchants Federation has announced that Alastair Campbell is to be its first keynote speaker for the trade association’s conference in Malta in June.

Builders merchant buying group NMBS has reached 3000 member branches within the UK, which is more than any national merchant, twice as many as McDonalds and three times as many as Starbucks.

Independent builders and timber merchant Ridgeons, has opened a branch in Hitchin; taking the Group's merchant branch network to 26.

South West Wales' independent builders' merchants, LBS Builders Merchants, has entered 80 employees into this year's 'Men's Health Survival of the Fittest' race in Cardiff. The event takes place on the 28th of September 2014, and will be the largest mass participation event in the company's history.

Independent business merchants, Mersey Building Supplies (MBS), has secured a two year framework agreement with Heyrod Construction with a value of £1million.

A Lincolnshire timber company has been fined after an agency worker lost the top of his finger in an unguarded machine.

Construction output showed no growth in July when compared with the previous month, but new orders rose at the fastest rate in a year, official statistics have revealed.

Encon Insulation and Marsh Industries have been announced as the final two key sponsors for the BMF All Industry Conference 2015, taking place in Malta next June.

Covers Timber and Builders Merchants with a depot on the Quarry Lane Estate, Chichester, are not only sponsoring the Chichester Half Marathon in aid of Children on the Edge, but they are entering a team for the event too.

Cross-party consensus on how best to deliver new housing and infrastructure projects would result in 200,000 new jobs in the construction sector, according to the industry's leading organisations.