The latest figures from the Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) reveal that builders’ merchants’ year-on-year value sales to builders, roofers and contractors were 11.1% higher in October 2021 compared to… Read more
The latest figures from the Builders Merchants Building Index (BMBI), published last month, reveal that record breaking value sales in June helped Britain’s builders’ merchants hit their best ever quarter… Read more
Sales to builders, roofers and contractors by Britain’s builders’ merchants were flat in October 2020. Total Builders Merchants value sales were only 0.2% higher than in October 2019, according to… Read more
The BMBI results for Quarter 2 show the phenomenal resilience of the sector in action. April, May and June couldn’t have been more different. April, in almost full lockdown,… Read more
Ongoing CMA Investigation into Rolled Lead Cartel – Comment by Midland Lead More than three years after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation started into alleged anti-competitive arrangements, two… Read more
At the time of gathering the data for this report, our sector had yet to experience the more widespread scale and impact of the Covid-19 crisis we are seeing today…. Read more
Launched in 2015, the award winning monthly Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report is the only reliable measure of repair, maintenance & improvement (RMI) activity in the UK. Filling an important gap, it can be widely used in construction, and by economists, Government, national media, commentators and influencers outside the industry.
