Having endured three and a half years of Brexit turmoil, the country now faces a far bigger challenge and greater uncertainty. The BMBI February report pre-dated social distancing (which… Read more

Members of the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) across the UK have joined forces to offer a united front in response to the COVOID-19 crisis. ‘Trades Against The Virus’ has been… 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

BMBI Experts contributing to BMN’s Leading Lights focused on the enduring issues in the industry rather than the emerging pandemic, and some of the consistent challenges we will return to… Read more

Sales figures for the final quarter of 2019 published in the Q4 2019 Builders Merchants Building Index (BMBI) report, round off a disappointing year for the sector, with a third… Read more

The Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) welcomes Midland Lead to its panel of industry experts. The company is a leading manufacturer and supplier of lead products, and the only independent… Read more

BMBI is a brand of the BMF. It’s produced by MRA Marketing using gold standard data from GfK, one of the largest insight agencies. GfK’s Builders Merchant Point of Sale… Read more

  The short trading day month of November saw subdued sales for merchants with the lowest total sales in 10 months. Year-on-Year Total Builders’ Merchant value sales in November 2019… Read more

  After a strong start to the year, the uncertain economic climate continued to impact negatively on merchants’ sales of Timber & Joinery into October 2019. Year-on-Year Total Builders Merchants’… Read more

The Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) fourth annual Round Table debate took place early December, hosted at Geberit HQ in Warwick. The BMBI is a brand of the Builders Merchants… Read more