Independent builders merchant buying group, National Buying Group has updated its online Hub to Version 3, making business-critical data more accessible for its Partners. The NBG Hub, which also houses NBG’s Product Information Management system, is an online platform developed by specialist buying group developer, eBiz, for Partners and Suppliers …
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Frank Elkins, CEO of Selco and GB Distribution at Grafton Group plc, has been elected to the Board of the Builders Merchants Federation for a second term, starting on April 1 2025. Elkins has already served as a BMF Board member for two years, from April 2021 to April 2023, …
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It’s that time of year again. The 2025 edition of BMJ’s Trailblazers will be published with the April edition. Once again, it will feature the top UK builders merchants, those turning over more than £30m or so in their last financial year. Trailblazers has long been used to benchmark the industry, comparing …
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. It is a truth, universally, accepted, that a journalist in want of a story, must be attracted by tales of bad news as well as good. Bad news is good news when …
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The Builders Merchants Federation has written to the Construction Minister, Sarah Jones MP, calling for a “fresh impetus” from Government to ensure it can deliver its target of 1.5 million new homes. In the letter the BMF set out the ways in which its members are preparing to support housebuilding …
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No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Maybe we’re missing something. Maybe Chancellor Rachel Reeves …
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The Builders Merchants Federation has announced that its All Industry Conference 2025 will take place in Barcelona. The event, held every two years alternatively with the NMBS Conference, will be held from Thursday June 12 to Sunday June 15. The venue is the Torre Melina hotel, and was announced by …
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The BMF’s Builder Merchants Building Index (BMBI) latest report on sales of building materials in the UK, once again underscores the impact of price inflation on the sector. Overall sales revenue in Quarter 2 2022 was the highest since the BMBI started in 2015 but, just as in the first …
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The Chichester depot of Covers Timber & Builders Merchants has donated £4,500 to Stonepillow, helping the local charity replace flooring in its hostel. Formed in 1989, the charity supports and empowers homeless people across West Sussex by offering a complete recovery journey that focuses on improving health and wellbeing. It …
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Gardner and Scardifield’s 100-Year Celebratory Community event took place in July on Lancing Beach Green, West Sussex. Gardner and Scardifield Builders Merchants, Electrical Wholesalers and DIY Suppliers, with over 15 branches throughout Sussex, put the event on to celebrate hitting its centenary. It was founded in Lancing in …
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