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  • The BMBI Experts’ Explainer Guide to UK Building Markets

    Q2 2025 – the story behind the numbers. The BMBI Q2 report is out giving us a much clearer picture of how 2025 is shaping up. Q2 delivered a second… Read more

    Type: Blog |  Posted: 11th September 2025

  • Metsä Wood UK Comment: Q2 2025

    Spring saw some of the warmest, sunniest weather many of us can remember at this time of year, which supported strong demand for timber landscaping products, especially in the DIY… Read more

    Type: Comment |  Posted: 4th September 2025

  • Polypipe Comment: Q2 2025

    The UK house-building market has seen a distinct lack of growth or recovery. Recent trading updates from house builders and their supply chain partners confirm a flat market outlook. When… Read more

    Type: Comment |  Posted: 4th September 2025

  • Brett Martin Comment: Q2 2025

    Students of marketing may be aware of the iconic 1978 political advertisement from the Conservative party: “Labour isn’t Working”. While the employment situation which underpinned the pun is different in… Read more

    Type: Comment |  Posted: 4th September 2025

  • ECI Software Solutions Comment: Q2 2025

    Quarter two 2025 has delivered encouraging signals for the UK building materials sector, with construction output growing +1.2% between Q1 and Q2 2025, reported by the ONS, and infrastructure projects… Read more

    Type: Comment |  Posted: 4th September 2025

  • Keylite Comment: Q2 2025

    In what is still a tough market, more contractors are fighting over less volume, creating more quoting and re-quoting activity for suppliers and merchants. The inevitable war on price is… Read more

    Type: Comment |  Posted: 4th September 2025

  • Dulux Comment: Q2 2025

    The trade paint market continues to improve as the year progresses, with volume growth so far at +2% when compared to this time last year. Exterior categories like masonry have… Read more

    Type: Comment |  Posted: 4th September 2025

  • Owlett-Jaton Comment: Q2 2025

    Demand in the fastener and fixings sector has continued to follow the general trends across merchants, with continuing soft demand driven by the sluggish levels of construction and Repair Maintenance… Read more

    Type: Comment |  Posted: 4th September 2025

  • Heidelberg Materials Comment: Q2 2025

    After a better-than-expected start to the year, the robust sales seen in Q1 did not continue into Q2, and ready-mixed concrete volumes sank to a historic low. Aggregate sales were… Read more

    Type: Comment |  Posted: 4th September 2025

  • Knauf-Insulation Comment: Q2 2025

    UK construction is in a holding pattern. The fundamentals remain positive to the upside, but in Q2 that’s been tempered by the changeable broader economic climate and the threat of… Read more

    Type: Comment |  Posted: 4th September 2025

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