The worsening economic position of construction manufacturers and contractors is expected to persist throughout 2009 and into 2010, according to the Construction Products Association.
Read More »Councils get £100m to boost housing market
The Government has today given councils access to over £100m to help maintain building family and first-time buyer homes, housing minister Margaret Beckett has announced.
Read More »Builders merchants feel credit crunch bite
Building material sales through builders merchants are 9.6% lower for the third quarter of 2008 than the same period in 2007.
Read More »Cement companies under cartel investigation
The European Commission is to investigate cement companies after suspicions arose that they may have operated an illegal cartel.
Read More »Cemco add two new merchants
Cemco, the independent merchant buying group, has added two more builders merchants to the group.
Read More »Building Supplies R Us: creditors likely to remain empty handed
Failed internet building supplies company Building Supplies R Us is unlikely to have sufficient funds to repay the builders merchants, manufacturers and other unsecured creditors to whom it owes money.
Read More »House sales at lowest level for 20 years
There were fewer housing transaction in October than at any time in the past 20 years and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors are blaming the lack of available mortgage finance.
Read More »TAPS opens sixth plumbers merchant
TAPS, the North East's independent plumbers' merchants, have opened a new branch on Tyneside.
Read More »Biasi offer tailor-made training for merchants
Boiler makers Biasi UK are now providing bespoke, free of charge training services for merchants, installers and specifiers from their state-of-the-art training facility near Birmingham.
Read More »Builders merchant fined for lorry scam
A former director of a builders merchant has been fined for his part in a scam using bogus licences for heavy goods vehicles.
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