News

Building materials conglomerate Saint-Gobain - parent of Jewson, Graham and Gibbs & Dandy - is sponsoring 'Teambuild 2011.

Irish merchanting group Grafton saw group turnover rise by 2.5% to c. €2.05 billion, according to a trading update issued this morning.

More than one in five small building firms have been forced to cut jobs as a direct result of last year's VAT increase to 20%.

Zero growth - or very nearly - for a decade is on the cards for the UK construction industry according to financial reporting firm Experian.

Football club Ebbsfleet United has won the Best Loosers competition run by plumbers merchant Plumb Center.

Andrew Keating, currently marketing director at BDR-Thermea, is the new managing director, UK Boiler Division, with immediate effect.

Dr Diana Montgomery has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Construction Products Association. She will take over from Michael Ankers who retires at the Association's AGM in April.

The Institute of Builders Merchants is to provide the BMF Campus on-line product knowledge portal as a free benefit to its members.

The UK housing market is likely to be even slower this year than it was in 2011, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Builders merchant chain Gibbs & Dandy, has helped a primary school open its very own allotment, after pupils asked teachers for more outdoor learning spaces.