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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. When you’re in a hole, the saying goes, you should stop digging. So far, so sensible. But what do you do when you’ve stopped …

Gavin Slark is to join builders merchant group Travis Perkins from the beginning of next year. He is currently CEO of  SIG, a role he moved to from Grafton Group, where he spent 11 years. Between 2006 and 2011, Slark was chief executive of plumbers’ merchant BSS Group before its …

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins has officially opened a new, larger branch in Rickmansworth.   The branch at the Olds Approach Industrial Estate branch, off Tolpits Lane, will offer building materials, a hire service, and a new state-of-the-art Benchmarx kitchen showroom. Rickmansworth branch manager Ersin Selim said that the new branch …

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins plc, has sold its Staircraft specialist floor kit, i-joist and staircase manufacturing subsidiary business  to Gait Consulting, which is majority owned by the founder of Staircraft, for cash consideration of £24m. Travis Perkins’ Chief Financial Officer Duncan Cooper said:  “The sale of Staircraft is another …

Trading conditions remain challenging for Travis Perkins plc, the UK’s largest builders merchant, which announced Group revenue down 2.1% on a like-for-like basis, for the three months to 31 March 2025. In the Merchanting segment revenue was down 3.2% on a like-for-like basis with pricing having stabilised and volumes still …

Dave Castle has been appointed as the first chief operating officer at MKM Building Supplies. Reporting to CEO Kate Tinsley, Castle says: “I’m really looking forward to working with all of our Branch Directors and their teams, Central Support, Suppliers and Customers. It’s an exciting time as we look to …

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it …the louder the noise they make as they stumble. As headline figures go, it’s pretty grim. Travis Perkins, the behemoth that for years has bestrode the UK merchanting sector like a, well, a …

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins saw operating profits wiped out, as it slipped to a pre-tax loss profit loss of -£77m, for the year ended December 31 2024, on group sales revenue that was, at £4.607bn, 4.7% down on the year before. The fall was, it said, driven by price …

Builders merchant Travis Perkins must demolish a new warehouse that Bolton Council has described as  ‘jarring’ and ‘in stark contrast’ to surrounding brick buildings, and that did not receive planning permission. The new building replaced an existing warehouse which Travis Perkins said was dangerous and had partially collapsed and the roof …

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, …