There can be few construction material categories that closed the 4th quarter of 2025 with a positive spin. The Heavy Building Materials segment remained in the same state of malaise… Read more

Hold onto your hats, here we go again! We hadn’t even learned what horrors the Chancellor’s budget would contain when the CPA (Construction Products Association) launched its dollop of pessimism… Read more

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

The second half of 2024 was marked by some unexpected changes in the manufacturing supply chain. As a result, some sizeable shifts in merchant distribution partners for the UK building… Read more

Quarter four was a mixed bag for Brett Martin Plumbing & Drainage with October and December better than forecast, but November, typically a very busy month for us, being unexpectedly… Read more

Unfortunately, Quarter Three continued to exhibit the sluggish market conditions that were carried over from the first half of the year. House builders and independent merchants remain gloomy about the… Read more

Quarter two continued the subdued trading environment we saw in the first quarter, with new build and RMI housing sectors continuing to show weakness. The second quarter was in line… Read more