Simon Pritchard, Managing Director of Specialist Driver Resourcing, explores the key traits and experience that builders’ merchants should expect when they recruit a temporary driver. Temporary drivers are often viewed as a necessary short-term solution. A merchant’s own driver phones [...]

Travis Perkins Managed Services (TPMS) has been appointed to the Communities & Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) Merchants and Materials Framework until 2036, supplying products and materials for the repair and maintenance of social housing. Following a formal tender process, TPMS [...]

Three UK manufacturers supplying building products have joined Made in Britain as they look to expand their product ranges and enter new markets. Henderstone, BPC Building Products and Proper Hopper have joined the organisation, with all three manufacturers citing plans [...]

A Travis Perkins branch manager has raised more than £5,000 for the Alzheimer’s Society after completing a 1,026-mile cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats. Richard Galloway, branch manager at Travis Perkins Croydon Hampton Road, raised £5,091 through more than [...]

By Gal Gazit, Plumbing & Heating Growth More installers hold a heat pump qualification today than at any point since the scheme began, and City Plumbing and VitoEnergy's own coverage of the trade has made that plain enough. What gets [...]

MKM Building Supplies has acquired the builders’ merchant business of New Milton Sand & Ballast (NMSB), expanding its branch network to 149 locations and strengthening its presence on the South Coast. The acquisition will see the New Milton operation become [...]