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Plumbers merchant Drakes Plumbing Supplies officially launched its new Whitstable branch on Tuesday evening (16th September), and are planning on opening several others in the next few years.

Builders merchant Chandlers Building Supplies has appointed former Grafton director Sue Knight as a non-executive director.

The Builders Merchants Federation has presented a number of awards at its first Awards night, held at Whittlebury Hall in Northamptonshire last night.

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.