Stax Trade Centres are sponsoring the publication of this year's Rainy Day Trust's Annual Review. The Rainy Day Trust is the industry charity for the hardware and merchant trades.
Read More »Housing starts to fall to 1924 levels
Private housing starts are set to drop a further 32% this year, taking numbers down to 70,000 - their 1924 level, according to the Construction Products Association.
Read More »Jewson chief awarded MBE
Peter Hindle, chief executive of Saint-Gobain Building Distribution and managing director of Jewson, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List for services to the building industry and to charity.
Read More »TAPS opens seventh plumbers merchant branch
TAPS, the plumbers merchant arm of builders merchants Thompson Building Supplies opened a new branch yesterday.
Read More »Interest rate cut ‘unlikely to make much difference’
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has welcomed the Bank of England decision to cut interest rates but said it was unlikely to make much difference to lending levels.
Read More »Hanson and Castle owner commits suicide
Adolf Merkle, the owner of Heidelberg Cement - parent company of Hanson and Castle Cement - died last Monday evening after apparently throwing himself under a train.
Read More »Grafton issue profit warning
Builders merchant group Grafton Group plc have warned that their 2008 earnings and profits will be towards the 'lower end of market expectations'.
Read More »NMBS achieve IiP status
Independent builders merchant buying group the National Merchant Buying Society have achieved the Investors in People standard, following a review by assessors EMQC.
Read More »Burdens honoured by CBI
Jeremy Burden, chief executive of civil engineering merchants Burdens, has been presented with the CBI North West Best Emerging Company Award.
Read More »NMBS md says independent merchants will rise to challenge
Independent builders merchants are better placed than their larger competitors to exploit new opportunities says Chris Hayward, managing director of National Merchant Buying Group.
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