Tag Archives: Construction

CCF has taken its first steps towards offering its customers greater visibility on the journey products take from manufacture to site by trialling a new product traceability initiative. It has developed a process to provide a detailed ‘end to end’ report that tracks products from the manufacturer, at manufacturing batch …

New data has shown that there is over 141,000 active vacancies across the top tradespeople roles, 51,683 of these vacancies are builders’ roles. Metals4U, who published the data, analysed the job vacancies on Indeed, Total Jobs and LinkedIn to find the most in-demand trade roles in the country. Paul McFadyen, …

MKM Warrington has announced its sponsorship of TEDxWarrington for the second time as the event returns on November 16 with the theme “Tackling Adversity”. MKM Warrington explained that it supports various community initiatives and causes in the Warrington area. David Harari, branch director of MKM Warrington, said: “It’s a pleasure …

Baxi has held its inaugural graduation ceremony at the Coventry Building Society Arena to celebrate the successes of its first group of apprentices. The event recognised the outstanding achievements of Baxi’s first cohort of field engineer apprentices, its degree apprentices, and colleagues from departments across the company who have completed …

Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index report show total value sales for August 2023 through specialist plumbing and heating merchants were up +2.8% higher than July, volume sales edged up +0.8% with prices up +1.9%. Total value sales over the last three months, June to August 2023, were +6.2% higher than …

Builders Merchant Building Index report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales were down -3.3% in the month of August compared to the same month in 2022, with volume falling -10.5% and prices up +8.0%. Eight of the 12 categories sold more this August than in August 2022 with Renewables & Water …

Civils Store has raised £26,412.80 for Air Ambulance UK at its black-tie charity dinner, which was to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. The event was held at the de Vere Tortworth Court Hotel, Wotton -under-Edge, Gloucestershire on July 2 – the event featured a Gala Dinner, Charity Auction, Raffle, Casino and …

Kudos Shower Products has announced the appointment of Mark Batley as senior business development manager for the company. He will be focussed on working with distributor partners and growing the number of Kudos retailers and its displays, including those approved for Premium Collection products. Sales and marketing director at Kudos …

Dura Products, has announced an extended partnership with National infrastructure contractor, Colas Ltd, to install its revolutionary recycled plastic kerbing solution, Durakerb on local highways in the Chester and Cheshire West region. This follows a government mandate aimed at increasing construction sustainability principles, the partnership aims to reduce carbon and …

Leyland SDM has launched its Big School Makeover campaign to give schools in the capital the chance to win a share of £10,000 worth of paint and DIY products. A public vote will then open to decide the winners, with one school scooping £5,000 worth of product and two runners-up …