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Many of you are already supporting the campaign and we are hoping you will come along and support us on the morning of 17 June when we will be having the trade launch of the campaign. The launch follows the welcoming speech from Sir Richard Leese, Le... more
Now more than ever is the time for your employees to improve their knowledge base, and by doing so help improve your company's competitiveness. The BMF Product Knowledge Modules (MOL's) offer an ideal way of enabling your employees to broaden their p... more
Following the recent reorganisation at head office, the new Membership Services Team is up and running and looking forward to working closely with Members.
Headed by Christine Harding and Carole Green, the new team is responsible for all day to day ... more
Maybe we should have organised a ‘mass delivery’. 100 builders merchants’ trucks, descending on Parliament Square from all corners of this scepter’d isle, all dropping stabilisers at the strike of Big Ben’s mid-day... more
The BMF has this month sent every member, and their branches, a copy of a new BMF Business Guide ‘Simplified Planning Regulations’.
The new changes to the planning regulations came into effect in October last year, and the importance of ... more
FEST, the Annual European Congress network for heating and sanitaryware merchants, is coming to Ireland next year, as Grafton director Sue Knight takes over the FEST President’s mantle. The dates are 23-26 September 2010, at the Westin Ho... more
The BMF has written to the Home Office stating our dissatisfaction at the latest £15m scheme announced recently which offers discount vouchers for home security products through DIY stores. This is yet another scheme where the merchant has been... more
The BMF Autumn Conference returns this year once again to the Castle Green Hotel, Kendal. It takes place on 13/15 November and is hosted by the North West Region. Chairman, Peter Worthington from Building Supplies (West Coast) invites all BMF Members... more
The Get Britain Building trade launch will be taking place the Greenbuild Expo event being held on 17/18 June at Manchester Central (formerly GMEX).
Greenbuild Expo is an exhibition and conference exploring sustainable construction. The Get Britain... more
Alan Ball of PTS Plumbing Trade Supplies and Allan Bartlett of Keith Builders Merchants have been elected to the BMF Board.
Alan Ball is Managing Director of PTS, a post he has held for the last for 4 years. He fully supports the role of the BMF and... more
Do you have a member of staff who has recently achieved or has nearly completed NVQ level 2 or 3 and who you feel deserves recognition for their effort? Then nominate him or her for the BMF Apprentice of the Year Award. There are cash prizes for the ... more
From 10 September this year a new European directive comes into effect which will mean that all professional LGV drivers must hold a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (Driver CPC).
All drivers, new and existing, will have to undertake 35... more
The Builders Merchants Federation is dismayed at Alistair Darling’s failure to lower VAT to 5% for all home improvement work. His decision to keep VAT at 15% until the end of December 2009 – when it reverts back to 17½ % – da... more
BMF submission to the Department of Energy and Climate Change on its public consultation about the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target scheme.
BMF regards the CERT scheme as flawed and in need of genuine revision. The way energy suppliers have thus fa... more
This report gives a snapshot of the key trading performance indicators for builders merchants for the twelve months ending April 2008. After April and throughout the rest of 2008, trading conditions worsened dramatically with the economic slump. As... more
It is an unhappy reality that companies are being forced to consider making redundancies as a way of reducing costs. Getting it wrong however - be it in the selection or discussion process - can mean unpleasant, expensive and time consuming con... more
BMF members have responded enthusiastically to the new Get Britain Building campaign, which launched on February 10th. Member requests for more van and lorry stickers were still flooding in as BMF staff joined with co-organisers British Precast... more
BMF is pursuing a major campaign against the market distortion that we believe is being caused by the way the Government’s carbon reduction scheme (CERT) is being operated. Under this scheme the energy companies are currently subsidising the co... more
BMF attended the launch of the new Capita gas installer registration scheme which comes into effect on 1st April 2009. The name given to the new scheme is Gas Safe RegisterTM , although installers do still need to be CORGI registered until 31st March... more
As the latest industry statistics point to an increasingly gloomy outlook, the BMF is urging the merchant trade to focus afresh on ways of encouraging the home improvement market.The November State Of Trade survey from the Construction Products Assoc... more
BMF has responded to a Government consultation on a proposed regulation to replace the current Construction Products Directive and tighten up the use of CE marking for construction products. We are concerned about requirements in the regulations that... more
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