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Professor Anand Menon, a leading expert on the UK’s relationship with Europe, will offer a fresh perspective on future relations at the BMF Annual Members Conference in September. Menon, who co-authored ‘Brexit and British Politics,’ is a Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London and serves …

Builders merchants trade organisation the Builders Merchants Federation held its bi-annual All-Industry Conference in Barcelona last weekend (June 12-15th), focusing on how the industry can collaborate to build for the future. With the headline Building Tomorrow Together, the event, which was headline-sponsored by ACO, was hosted by Mark Durden-Smith, returning …

Risk expert Caspar Berry is the latest speaker confirmed for the BMF All Industry Conference in June. He studied Economics and Anthropology at Cambridge and forged an early career as a screenwriter, but his expertise comes from a life-changing decision he made at 25, when he became a professional poker …

The BMF has launched the first stage of its Sector Awareness Programme; the bmcareers.com website was launched at the Federations Annual Members Conference on September 19. The need for such a programme has been a long time coming and follows research carried out by YouGov which highlights that nearly half …

Harriet Harman KC, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, will be a keynote speaker at the BMF All Industry Conference 2025, in Barcelona next June. Harman represented the constituency of Camberwell and Peckham as the Labour Member of Parliament from 1982 to 2024. In 2024 she was appointed to …

The Builders Merchant Federation announces that James Sproule, chief economist of Handelsbanken UK, has been confirmed to speak at the BMF Members’ Annual Conference on 21 September. Sproule is an adviser to a wide range of the bank’s clients, as well as being an integral part of the bank’s broader …

Every picture tells a story and photographer Giles Duley, the keynote speaker at the BMF Members’ Conference in September, has spent much of his career drawing attention to the long-term impact of conflict and humanitarian crises by highlighting individual stories behind the headlines Duley’s own story is as dramatic as …

The Builders Merchants Federation has confirmed that it will hold its 2020 Annual Members Conference and Awards on 16th & 17th September at the De Vere Beaumont Estate, Windsor. Over 285 delegates attended the Federation’s 2019 Members Conference last month where they enjoyed two days of presentations, business workshops, networking …

The award-winning BBC business journalist and broadcaster, Joe Lynam, will return to the BMF Members Annual Conference on September 19th. Lynam regularly appears on BBC News, BBC Breakfast and Radio 4’s flagship Today Programme covering business, the economy, EU, UK and Ireland.  His report exposing RBS’ mistreatment of its small business …