Following a strong start to the year, Total Builders’ Merchants’ value sales to builders and contractors were down -1.2% in Q2 2019 against the same period last year, BMBI statistics show.
Builders Merchant Building Index has been featured in the latest Monthly Construction Update from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
Total Builders Merchants value sales to builders and contractors in April 2019 were up 5.3% compared with the same period in 2018, according to the BMBI.
Total Builders Merchant value sales in February 2019 were up 4.1% compared with February 2018, BMBI stats show – and up 8.2% compared with the same month in 2017.
Total Builders Merchants value sales to roofers, builders and contractors in October 2018 were the highest of any month since the start of BMBI data in July 2014.