News

A new web-based business, Networkyourstock.com, launches today with the aim of bringing together buyers and sellers in the door & window industry. It covers architectural ironmongery and hardware, doors, windows, and security products.

Clower & Sons, the independent builders merchants in Ripley, Derbyshire, have relaunched following a three-month refurbishment programme.

Leaders of the Get Britain Building coalition have issued a stark warning to the government ahead of this week's Budget.

Andrew Stunell MP has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to call for a reduction in VAT to 5% on building repair and improvement work to be introduced in Wednesday's Budget.

Build Center, the builders merchants arm of the Wolseley group, have launched a new campaign to boost sales of their landscaping products.

Ceramic sink specialists Shaws of Darwen have been bought by their management, just weeks after their parent company went into administration.

Builders merchants group Travis Perkins believe that rationalisation in the builders merchant market could help them gain market share, says chairman Tim Stevenson in the Annual Report for the year ended December 31 2008, published today.

Hans Schreuder, managing director of Rockwool UK has welcomed the Conservative Party's plans for a green technology recovery, published yesterday.

Building plant and equipment specialists JCB have opened a new £40m heavy products factory.

Jackson Building Centres' branch in Swinton, near Rotherham, has come to the rescue of a children's allotment site when it was ransacked by thieves.