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Award-winning tool retailer Isaac Lord has been sold, ending 117 years of ownership by the Lord family.

A poll of more than 600 plumbing and heating installers has revealed support for a policy to restrict the sale of gas safe critical products to Gas Safe registered engineers only.

Building materials group CRH, owner of Ibstock Brick, says that trading conditions in Europe and the US are still difficult, but it says the pace of decline is slowing.

Builders merchant invoice clearing house Unimer hosted its annual Supplier Luncheon for a record number of suppliers earlier this month.

Dame Mavis McDonald's name is in the frame to take the government's chief construction advisor job.

Investment to build more houses and to retrofit existing homes must be a key part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Pre-Budget Report next month, argues the Federation of Master Builders.

Irish builders merchants and DIY group Grafton, which owns the Buildbase, Plumbase, Jacksons and Selco merchant brands in the UK has issued an interim management statement for the period to November 2009 which shows UK turnover down 4%.

Fareham-based plumbers merchant Williams & Co have taken on premises in Basingstoke, which will become their 15th branch.

The Water Efficient Products Labelling Scheme has been updated to include more products which will save householders water and the scheme is increasingly being used by consumers to source product, says the Bathroom Manufacturers Association.

Builders merchant group Grafton Group is setting up a fully managed stores for Manchester-based housing association Trafford Housing Trust, under the merchant's Grafton Group Supply Chain Solutions arm.