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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/merchant-and-construction-sector-respond-to-autumn-budget-2024/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=25/10/24</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[PBM presents a number of reactions from the builders’ merchant and wider construction sector to the Autumn Budget - the first from the new Labour Government.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Merchant and construction sector responds to Autumn Budget 2024</title>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/builders-merchant-building-index-august-2024-sales/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=25/10/24</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[Published in October, the latest BMBI report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales in August were down -5.6% compared to the same month in 2023.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Latest BMBI report shows merchant sales hit during “wash out summer”</title>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/clc-material-supply-chain-group-statement-october-30-2024/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=25/10/24</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[The Construction Leadership Council’s Material Supply Chain Group’s latest report “continues to show good levels of product availability as we move into the final quarter of the year.”]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>CLC Material Supply Chain Group statement, October 30 2024</title>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/app-wholesale-acquires-ultimate-renewables-supplies/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=25/10/24</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[APP Wholesale has announced the acquisition of Ultimate Renewables Supplies, billed as “one of the country’s premier design and supply specialists in heat pumps and renewable energy solutions.”]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>APP Wholesale acquires Ultimate Renewables Supplies</title>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/plumbing-heating-merchant-august-sales-drop-according-to-phmi-report/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=25/10/24</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[The latest figures from the Plumbing &#038; Heating Merchant Index show total value sales for August 2024 were down -8.5% compared to the same month a year a year before.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Plumbing &#038; Heating merchants’ August sales drop, according to PHMI report</title>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/instantor-receives-gold-standard-accolade-at-irelands-best-managed-companies-awards/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=25/10/24</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[Instantor has again been acknowledged as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies, after receiving the 2024 Gold Standard Winner accolade at a recent awards evening.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Instantor awarded the ‘Gold Standard’ at Ireland’s Best Managed Companies 2024 </title>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/you-are-gold-nmbs-celebrates-successful-dinner-dance/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=25/10/24</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[More than 1,000 independent builders’ merchants and suppliers came together to network and celebrate at the NMBS annual Dinner Dance on 26 October 2024.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>You are Gold! NMBS celebrates successful Dinner Dance</title>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                    <header_content><![CDATA[<p class="xxmsonormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>News from PBM magazine – November 1<sup>st</sup> 2024</b></p>
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