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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. …

The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report, produced by MRA Research, reveals builders’ merchants’ like-for-like value sales for Q4 2025, adjusted to remove the impact of trading days, were -1.2% lower than Q4 2024.  With no difference in trading days, unadjusted Q4 total value sales were also down -1.2% year-on-year. …

According to a new report by MRA Building Market Reports (MRA Reports), future growth in the general builders’ merchant market is expected to be slow and gradual between 2026 and 2030. The new report quantifies the general builders’ merchants’ market, excluding plumbing & heating merchants and other specialist segments within …

The Plumbing and Heating Merchant Index has released its May report, and it shows that total value sales increased by 1.7% compared to last year. The report also showed that this growth came from price inflation of 7.1% as volumes fell by 5%, this is despite there being one less …

MRA Research, which focuses on market and customer insight in the building materials and construction markets and is the specialist research division of MRA Marketing, has recently boosted its team with the appointment of a Research Development Manager, Anna Eriksson. Anna has worked in market research and insight since 2003, …