News

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins has scooped Breast Cancer Campaign’s coveted ‘Corporate Partnership Innovation Award’ after raising an extraordinary £195,000 for the charity in 2013.

A new record has been set for the most online training courses completed in a month by employees at plumbers merchant Wolseley UK.

Plumbing and heating distributor F & P Wholesale is taking its new mobile bathroom showroom round to the nine distribution centres nationwide.

UK construction companies continued to record strong output rises during April, but the rate of expansion is the weakest since October 2013, according to the latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI).

The Build Show has welcomed forecasts that sales of construction products will continue to rise during the second quarter of the year, as announced in the latest Construction Products Association's State of Trade Survey.

The Government has launched the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund (GDHIF), providing more funds for people who want to make energy efficient improvements to their homes.

Ideal Boilers has welcomed the news that more money is available for people who want to make energy efficient improvements to their homes.

Baxi has welcomed the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund, but has expressed its disappointment that installers wanting to get involved with the scheme will continue to face red tape and cost.

Insulation supplier Knauf Insulation has criticised the Government's Green Deal Home Improvement Fund (GDHIF) for not including loft insulation in its list of approved measures.

East Anglian independent builders merchant Kent Blaxill has opened a new decorating centre in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, taking its total number of branches to nine.