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Sussex independent builders merchant Chandlers Building Supplies sent Lewes branch manager Tim Parsons off to swim with sharks earlier this month on the condition that he raised money for charity.

The Builders Merchants Federation is joining forces with the Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association to back the Fair Fuel UK Campaign.

Sussex independent builders merchant Chandlers Building Supplies has bought the assets of Tiger Timber Ltd.

Builders merchants organisation the Builders Merchants Federation has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, urging him to scrap the planned fuel duty rise planned for April.

The Timber Trade Federation has set up ReThink, a new consultancy service designed to support the timber specification and supply chain

A man driving a van belonging to builders and plumbers merchant group Wolseley was captured on video last week fly-tipping a radiator over a fence.

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins will be allowed to retain its Walsall store after the Office of Fair Trading ruled that competition in the area was sufficiently robust.

Housing project starts for the three months to December 2010 fell by 31% compared to the same period in 2009.

Independent builders merchant Grant & Stone has topped the BMJ Index for 2010, according to the January issue of Builders Merchants Journal, out this week.

Plumbers merchant Plumb Center, part of Wolseley UK, has opened a second new-generation branch in Orpington, Kent.