Masons offers ‘top stocking tips’ for 2016
Masons offers a bespoke range of timber products to merchants, providing trade professionals with a 'one-stop shop' to help save time and money.
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BMF launches additional legal and employment law member services
The BMF has launched two new member services - a new Legal Helpline and BMF Intelligent Employment Plus.
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Government announces plans to ‘directly commission’ building of new homes
The government is to ‘directly commission’ thousands of new affordable homes as well as making provision for an additional £1.2bn fund to build 30,000 affordable ‘starter...
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Marley Golf Classic launches for 2016
For 24 years, the Golf Classic tournament — sponsored by Marley Plumbing & Drainage since its inception — has provided hundreds of golfers from across the UK construc...
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Further growth for Worshipful Company of Builders Merchants
The Worshipful Company of Builders’ Merchants (WCoBM) continues to grow, having added nine new Liverymen and ten new Freemen to its membership this year. In April, the Co...
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GfK and BMF data show rising sales for merchants in Q3
The latest sales figures from GfK’s Builders Merchants Panel, released by the BMF, show sales in Q3 2015 through the UK’s general builders’ merchants were up on both the...
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BMF comments on Autumn Statement and Spending Review
Initiatives on new homes, vocational training and help for businesses were revealed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP, as he gave his Autumn Statement...
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Help PBM produce this year’s ‘Top 20 merchant countdown’
PBM is in the process of compiling statistics for our annual ‘Top 20 merchant countdown’, based on the turnover figures of the sector’s largest businesses and...
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Barbour ABI report demonstrates growth in residential sector
The residential sector showed major signs of a return in October with 49% of all construction contract values, totalling £3.7 billion, according to the latest Economic...
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Mortgage Advice Bureau comments on latest DCLG housing figures
The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) recently issued the Net Supply of Housing: 2014-2015, England report (12th November). Headline findings reveal:...
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