Heating and plumbing merchant Wolseley will fully reopen all of its UK trade counters from tomorrow (July 1). Wolseley, which has been operating an order and collect service for essential maintenance since early in the lockdown period, has been reopening trade counter doors on a phased basis since June with the majority already open. The […]

Builders merchants trade association the Builders Merchants Federation is supporting Eureka! Research in its quest to understand what working life is really like for the plumbing and heating trades coming out of the Coronavirus lockdown. The research company is gathering information from as many installer businesses as possible to discover how things have changed since […]

Encon Insulation & Nevill Long has appointed Neville White as business development manager – fire protection, with the aim of building the team’s knowledge and expertise in the supply of fire protection products across all sectors. White began his career working for the manufacturer Cape Boards in 1980 as a trainee. He progressed into a […]

Engineered Foam Products  is to supply its expanded polystyrene product to building products manufacturer Forterra for use with the latter’s Bison Precast Jetfloor system to improve the thermal performance of the ground floors of new build domestic houses. The first deliveries of EFP’s product were made to multiple construction sites on Monday 1st June 2020. […]

South Wales independent builders’ merchant LBS Builders Merchants opened its 26th branch yesterday (June 15). The branch, on the Ty Verlon Trading Estate in Barry, is the family-run company’s furthest east branch in Wales. The fully-refurbished site, off Cardiff Road, will consist of a builders’ merchant, a Total Plumbing outlet and a large, impressive kitchen […]

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins is to close around 165 branches across its business as a response to the continued challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, consequent lockdown and likely UK recession. The group issued a trading update and liquidity update this morning (June 15) to say that the actions, which will affect around 8% of […]

The fastest ever eCommerce website implementation is being delivered for JK Timber, a small merchant, to help it fight back against the sales impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. To help the independent Rugby-based merchant, eCommonSense, the company that builds highly functional websites for builders’ merchants, agreed to deliver a simple solution within four weeks.  The […]