Tag Archives: January

The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report, produced by MRA research, has been published, highlighting January’s builders’ merchant like-for-like total value sales (adjusted to remove the effect of trading days) were -2.6% lower than the same month in 2025. With one less trading day this January, total value sales …

The January Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report, produced by MRA Research, has been published. The report shows total like-for-like value sales (adjusted to remove the impact of trading days) through specialist plumbing and heating merchants were up +3.0%  for January 2026 compared to the same month the year before. …