The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will announce if it has approved builders merchant Travis Perkins's £558m takeover of rival merchants BSS Group tomorrow (October 19).
Read More »Builders and MPs Back Renewable Heat Incentive
Builders organisation the Federation of Master Builders has joined a number of MPs in urging the government to introduce a Renewable Heat Incentive.
Read More »Wolseley in talks to pull Bathstore chain
Speculation is rising that plumbers and builders merchant chain Wolseley is gearing up to sell the Bathstore retail business.
Read More »Homes code will be published this month
The delayed Code for Sustainable Homes will be published at the end of this month the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG) has confirmed.
Read More »Toolstation supports RNLI flood team
Tool supply company Toolstation has signed a three-year sponsorship deal with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to support the charity's Flood Rescue Team.
Read More »Baxi call centre receives top accolade
UK boiler manufacturer Baxi Group's after sales operation heateam has been ranked seventh in the 2010 Top 50 Call Centres for Customer Service.
Read More »CSR could cost half a million jobs
Next Wednesday's Comprehensive Spending Review see be the start of the loss of 100,000 building jobs, according to accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Read More »Travis Perkins bankrupt customer went on spending spree
A bankrupt customer of builders merchant Travis Perkins drank and gambled his way through £20,000, despite owing money to the builders merchant and the bank.
Read More »Feed-in-Tarrifs ‘distorting the market’ says Worcester
The Feed-in Tariff scheme is distorting the market for solar technology and urgently requires rebalancing, according to Worcester Bosch's Neil Schofield.
Read More »Housing minister promises to cut red tape for housebuilding
Housing minister Grant Shapps yesterday pledge to cut red tape and make it easier for developers to build homes.
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