The latest BMBI report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales in May were unchanged (0.0%) compared to May 2024. Year-on-year volumes rose +2.1% but prices fell -2.1%. With one less trading day in the most recent period, like-for-like value sales – which take trading day differences into account – were up +5.0%.
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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales in April were up +3.0% compared to April 2024.
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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales in February were down -2.7% compared to the same month in 2024.
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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants value sales in January were down -2.3% compared to the same month in 2024. Volume sales were flat (+0.0%) and prices slipped -2.3%. There was no difference in trading days.
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The Encon Group, the UK’s leading independent building materials distributor, appoints Joe Hindmarch as its new Regional Fire Protection Manager for the Midlands & North.
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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales in August were down -5.6% compared to the same month in 2023.
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The Encon Group, the UK’s leading independent distributor of building materials, expands into North Wales with a new branch in Wrexham.
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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales were up +3.9% in April compared to the same month a year ago.
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The latest total value sales figures from Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) show Q1 2024 sales were -7.2% lower than Q1 2023, with volume sales falling -8.7% and prices edging up +1.6%.
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The number of women across the construction workforce increased to 15.8% from April – June 2023, which is a jump of 1.2% from the previous quarter. In short, that equates to the highest number since records began in 1997. EPD Insulation Group has more…
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