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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/final-call-your-help-required-pbm-top-20-merchant-countdown-2023-calendar-year/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=March-08-2024</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[FINAL CALL: PBM is currently compiling this year's annual Top 20 merchant countdown, set to appear in our April 2024 edition, and we need your help.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>FINAL CALL: Your help required for PBM&#8217;s April 2024 Top 20 merchant countdown</title>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/travis-perkins-plc-full-year-results-31-december-2023/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=March-08-2024</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[In its full year results announcement for 2023, Travis Perkins plc has cited “a challenging year (with) weak market conditions” with Group revenue (2.7)% lower than the year before.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Travis Perkins plc presents full year results for the year to 31 December 2023</title>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 11:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/grafton-group-plc-publishes-full-year-results-for-2023/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=March-08-2024</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[Grafton Group plc says it has delivered “a resilient set of results in challenging markets and measured against what was a strong comparative performance in the prior year.”]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Grafton Group plc publishes Final Results for Year Ended 31 December 2023</title>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/budget-2024-construction-industry-responses/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=March-08-2024</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[Following the Spring Budget Statement from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, PBM rounds up a number of responses from the merchant and construction sector:]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Spring Budget 2024: construction industry responses</title>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 09:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/final-bmbi-report-2023-builders-merchant-sales-downturn/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=March-08-2024</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[Figures for Q4 2023 in the latest BMBI report confirm the extent of the construction downturn during the quarter and over the course of the year, with annual sales values falling by -5.1% compared with 2022, after two years of strong growth.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Final BMBI report of 2023 confirms builders&#8217; merchant sales mirror construction downturn</title>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/q4-2023-phmi-shows-virtually-flat-sales-and-volumes-down/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=March-08-2024</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[Figures released in the PHMI for Q4 2023 show that total value sales growth through specialist Plumbing &#038; Heating merchants was driven by higher prices rather than an increase in sales volume.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>Q4 2023 PHMI shows &#8216;virtually flat&#8217; sales and volume down -5.0%</title>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                <link>https://professionalbuildersmerchant.co.uk/news/sp-global-uk-construction-pmi-for-february-2024/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=March-08-2024</link>
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                                <excerpt><![CDATA[February data presented in the latest S&#038;P Global UK Construction PMI report pointed to improved demand conditions across the UK construction sector.]]></excerpt>
                                                                <title>S&#038;P Global UK Construction PMI: February 2024 data</title>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
                                
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                                    <header_content><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>News from PBM magazine &#8211; March 8th 2024</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Welcome to PBM’s weekly news bulletin. Click the following links for the stories behind some of the latest headlines from across the merchant sector, and don’t forget to check our website for further news, opinion and updates.</p>
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