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WindowBASE

09 August 2024

WindowBASE: Surge in direct marketing spend as consumer confidence grows

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According to the latest IPA Bellwether Report, UK companies increased their marketing budgets at the highest rate since 2014, with direct marketing one of the strongest growth areas, behind events. “Budgets for direct marketing have increased for the past six quarters, as companies aim to target prospects more precisely, and this trend looks set to continue,” comments Mike Rigby, Managing Director of trade database supplier WindowBASE.

BMBI

27 March 2024

BMBI: Tentative start to 2024 as January value sales slip

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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales were down -2.1% in January compared to the same month in 2023.

BMBI

27 May 2022

New, Easy-to-Read Executive Summary Report from BMBI

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The award-winning Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report is now available in a new Executive Summary format.

PHMI

25 March 2021

New PHMI report shows slower sales in January

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The second Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report shows specialist plumbing & heating merchants’ sales in January were down 5.0% on January 2020.

BMBI

19 December 2017

Builders’ merchants experience solid October

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October saw total merchant sales to builders and contractors at their highest since GfK began compiling BMBI sales data in July 2014, although the Index has said the effects of inflation cannot be ignored, as many sectors have reported significant price increases over the past year.