Heating and hot water specialists Heatrae Sadia have launched a division aimed the electric heating market.
Read More »Footprint Tools in liquidation
Tool company Footprint Tools has entered voluntary liquidation, although it is expected that all creditors should be paid in full.
Read More »Marshalls announce rights issue
Building materials manufacturers Marshalls are the latest to ask shareholders for more money via a rights issue.
Read More »Jewson receive safety award
Builders merchants Jewson have picked up four silvers in the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Occupational Health and Safety Awards.
Read More »Q1 survey shows ‘no respite’ for construction
Construction output and employment are set to fall even further in 2009 and 2010, according to the latest State of Trade Survey from the Construction Products Association.
Read More »Lafarge roll out new website
Building materials manufacturers Lafarge have relaunched their UK website to coincide with the roll-out of Lafarge Cement's redesigned packed cement range.
Read More »Timber merchant wins Lifetime achievement award
Frank Hellyer, a former director of Covers Timber and Builders Merchants, has won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chichester Observer Business Awards.
Read More »PTS branch aim for new heights
Staff from the Aldridge and Tamworth branches of plumbers merchants PTS (Plumbing Trade Supplies) are preparing to climb Mount Snowdon in aid of children's charity NSPCC.
Read More »Thermalite up for sale again
Hanson Building Products have put their Thermalite airecrete block business up for sale as part of a re-alignment by parent company HeidelbergCement behind their core markets.
Read More »Travis Perkins launch rights issue to raise £314m
Builders merchant group Travis Perkins is launching a rights issue to raise around £314m, just weeks after rival builders merchants Wolseley competed their £1bn cash call.
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