Following a week of fundraising, staff, customers and suppliers at the Dumfries branch of plumbers' merchant Graham have raised more than £500 for children's charity, Barnardos.
Read More »NMBS signs up with Unity Green Deal
Independent builders merchant buying group NMBS Ltd and Unity Green Deal Ltd have entered into a formal agreement over the Green Deal.
Read More »RGB to add a further branch
Devon and Cornwall independent builders merchant RGB Building Supplies, has acquired a unit in Torquay.
Read More »Covers adds a 13th branch
Independent builders merchant Covers Timber & Builders Merchant is to open its 13th branch on Monday (August 13) in Tunbridge Wells.
Read More »Bence gets a temporary make-over
Cheltenham independent builders merchant George Bence & Sons has commissioned a trompe l'oeil design to promote its landscaping display.
Read More »Lambert calls for bold house building stimulus
The former director-general of the Confederation of British Industry has called for the Government to stimulate house building.
Read More »Green Deal needs more insulation choice says OFT
The Office of Fair Trading wants to see more competition in the home insulation market before the Green Deal starts this October.
Read More »Shropshire builders merchant finds extinct beetle
A huge beetle, extinct in the UK, turned up at the Leebotwood branch of independent builders merchant Shropshire Building Supplies.
Read More »DECC looks to BMF to help with Green Deal
Builders merchants organisation the Builders Merchants Federation is working with the Department of Energy & Climate Change to promote a positive message about opportunities the Green Deal can offer to merchants and their customers.
Read More »Green Deal ignores retro-fit options, says radiator association
The 'approved list' of products under the Government's Green Deal plans which is not in the public interest, according to the Manufacturers' Association of Radiators and Convectors.
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