Sales down, prices up, at builders' merchants
The latest Builders' Merchant Building Index data shows sales by value down 1.2% year-on-year in Q2 2026, with prices up 5.8% and volumes down 6.6%.
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The latest Builders' Merchant Building Index data shows sales by value down 1.2% year-on-year in Q2 2026, with prices up 5.8% and volumes down 6.6%.
Builders merchants MKM will stock Sisalwool sustainable natural fibre insulation, after the Federation of Master Builders Scotland brought together the two businesses.
Newport-based Hughes Forrest, founded in 1931, shares how it has grown from a single branch to a seven-site builders’ merchant
Employee-owned Gloucester-based contractor focusing on efficiency
Employee-owned contractor doubles trust payment as turnover rises
Travis Perkins' Corby branch has relocated to a larger site, offering a hire service in the area for the first time.
Chadwicks Group has opened a new The Panelling Centre and Sitetech branch in Belfast, its first in Northern Ireland.
Michelmersh sees sales drop another 9% in first half of the year
Huws Gray has added plant and tool hire at its St Helens branch, part of a national expansion into hire.
EcoVadis has awarded MKM Building Supplies its gold medal, placing the independent building merchant in the top 5% of 150,000 companies assessed globally.
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Huws Gray has appointed its first showrooms director, Jamie Davis, as it develops its customer experience at branches across the UK.
Building materials distribution giant braced for tough markets to continue
Durham-based contractor increases turnover 17%
Specialist contracting division performing well at BRCK Group
Knights Brown income jumps 17%
The Home Bargains store in Blackwood can expand into a neighbouring unit, council planners have decided.
UK brickwork company Harlequin Brickwork has entered administration, after being founded in 2011
Screwfix has applied to install a 'commercial pod' in the car park of a Whitley Bay supermarket.
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