A group which provides life-saving first aid at events throughout Wales has won building materials to help modernise its facilities. St John Ambulance Cymru has won £500 worth of materials from Selco Builders Warehouse through the builders merchant’s newly-launched Community Heroes campaign. And it could get better yet for the charity, which will go forward…
EDATA, the data pool for the UK’s electrotechnical sector, has recently released a technical update designed to improve the experience of both the creators of product information (the manufacturers) and the consumers of product data (the wholesalers and their contractor customers). Highlights from the latest upgrade include: Automatic 3-tier website navigation structure: for wholesalers moving…
Dominick Sandford, managing director at IronmongeryDirect and ElectricalDirect, said: “Over the summer, the average pay in UK construction rose at a faster rate than all but one sector, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics. “In June, typical weekly earnings stood at £707, which was the fourth consecutive month where income…
More than three quarters (78 per cent) of tradespeople have struggled to source materials this year New research reveals the 10 materials that workers have found hardest to source Plasterers, surveyors and joiners are the worst affected trades The materials shortage has plagued the UK trade industry for two years, and now new research has…
PARTNERSHIP HAS SEEN A TOTAL OF 1500 YOUNG VOLUNTEERS EARN OVER 850 CITY & GUILDS QUALIFICATIONS Travis Perkins, which is part of Travis Perkins plc and is the UK’s largest distributor of materials to the construction sector, has announced its 100th tie-up with the Volunteer It Yourself (VIY) social enterprise, helping donate materials for the…
The nation has been experiencing a shortage of delivery drivers in recent years. So much so, Amazon enticed part-time workers with up to £3,000 in incentives to ensure this didn’t affect profits during the festive period. As well as this, according to the Road Haulage Association, the industry was short of more than 100,000 HGV…
Leading builders merchant Selco Builders Warehouse has partnered with Peterborough United for the 2022-2023 Sky Bet League One campaign. The deal includes sponsorship of a soon to be launched Goal of the Month competition, which will include goals from the first team, under 21s, under 18s and women’s side, as well as featured messaging on…
Screwfix recently welcomed Maggie Throup MP, Member of Parliament for Erewash, and Alex Avis, reigning champion for Screwfix Trade Apprentice 2022, to the Ilkeston store in Derbyshire. Ms Throup and Mr Avis, who is from Nottingham, had the opportunity to take a guided tour of the Ilkeston store and find out from the team how…
AEI Cables has won further valuable support for its initiative highlighting the need for only using approved cabling in a range of critical applications of Category 3 Control fire performance cables. The systems powered by these cables – including smoke and heat extraction systems – assist fire services in firefighting and enabling safe evacuation in…
Suppliers’ reluctance to take on new customers and the struggles of brokers and intermediaries to secure the quantities of quotes for their clients that they have been used to are sign posts of where the business energy sector could be heading. With businesses potentially struggling to get credit insurance, which limits business risk, increasing supplier…