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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/uk-merchant-sector-top-20-2023-calendar-year/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=April-05-2024</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[2024 Top 20: As published in our April 2024 edition, PBM looks behind the numbers to consider the performance of the UK merchant sector’s largest businesses during 2023.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>UK merchant sector Top 20 – 2023 calendar year</title>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 10:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[This year’s NMBS Exhibition is set to take place on 10–11 April 2024 at the Coventry Building Society Arena.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Coventry calling with NMBS Exhibition only days away</title>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 07:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[IBC Buying Group has publicly announced the appointment of Stuart Stockley as its new Managing Director.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>IBC confirms new Managing Director appointment</title>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[The latest BMBI report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales were down -2.1% in January compared to the same month in 2023, with volume sales falling -3.2% and prices creeping up +1.1%.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>BMBI report reveals “tentative start to 2024 as January value sales slip -2.1% year on year”</title>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/face-to-face-tim-houghton-managing-director-of-fvth/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=April-05-2024</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[PBM speaks with Tim Houghton, MD of HGV contract hire and rental company FVTH, about his perspectives on the sector from legislation, compliance and alternative fuel vehicles.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Face to Face: Tim Houghton, Managing Director of FVTH</title>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[In the Viewpoint column of PBM’s April 2024 issue, editor Paul Davies reflected on the findings of the magazine’s annual ‘Top 20’ countdown of the UK’s largest merchant businesses...]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Editor’s Viewpoint: Don’t panic</title>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[With a growing number of merchants successfully launching drive-thru batching plants for concrete and screed, IHS UK has taken the concept one stage further with the introduction of its 'mobile' Conqueror XL solution.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>IHS UK launches &#8216;mobile&#8217; drive-thru plant for concrete and screed</title>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                    <header_content><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>News from PBM magazine &#8211; April 5th 2024</strong></p>
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