Travis Perkins group operating profits fell 15.1% to £271.5m from last year's £319.9m despite cuts to staff numbers and reducing expansion targets.
Read More »BSS trade ‘remains resilient’
Plumbing and heating merchant group BSS Group has seen revenue holding up well for the first 18 weeks of the second half of the financial year, according to an interim management statement.
Read More »Jewson partner up with NFU farmers
Builders merchant chain Jewson has set up a partnership with the National Farmers Union which offers savings on building materials and timber to their members.
Read More »Pegler Yorkshire invest £12m
Plumbing, heating and bathroom fittings people Pegler Yorkshire are to invest £12m in their Doncaster factory, bringing in new machinery to improve efficiency and capacity.
Read More »B&Q to sell loft insulation for £1
DIY chain B&Q will sell a million rolls of loft insulation at just £1 a roll, cheaper than most builders merchants could buy it.
Read More »BMF in coalition campaign to save UK building jobs
The biggest building industry coalition ever met at Westminster today to kick-start the Get Britain Building campaign.
Read More »BLP call in administrators
MDF mouldings manufacturers BLP Ltd have gone into administration.
Read More »Hanson mothball quarries
Building materials producers Hanson UK are mothballing production at two of their quarries in Gloucestershire.
Read More »Lafarge Cement close other half of Westbury
Just five months after halving production at the Westbury plant in Wiltshire, Lafarge Cement have announced they are to mothball the entire factory.
Read More »UK construction picture remains bleak
There is no respite whatsoever from the downturn in the UK construction sector, which is likely to mean the lowest output for 30 years.
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