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Hanson has restricted its bagged cement supplies due to an “unprecedented” increase in demand and difficulty getting transport. Its UK packed products

CLC committee raises concerns on material shortages 26 May, 2021 SHARE John Newcomb, CEO of the Builders Merchants Federation and Peter Caplehorn, CEO of the Construction Products Association, co-chairs of the Construction Leadership Council’s Product Availability working group have issued a statement. Activity in the UK construction sector, already high at the start of the year, has been very robust and picked up sharply from the beginning of March.  New housing and repair, maintenance and improvement (RMI...

bags of cement in a house under construction Supplies of bagged cement and certain electronic components are “growing areas of concern”, the Construction Leadership Council has said. The CLC said in its latest update that product availability is worsening, as it previously warned was likely to happen. Supplies are likely to face constraints for the next six months due to strong national and global demand. Activity in the UK has increased since March, it added, with the previously subdued commercial and industrial sectors seeing workloads pick up. A shortage of haulage drivers and increase...

PageGroup CEO returns to BMF All Industry Conference 25 May, 2021 Steve Ingham Steve Ingham, CEO of PageGroup, the worldwide leader in specialist recruitment, is the latest speaker to have been confirmed for the BMF All Industry Conference in November. Since becoming a wheelchair user after a near fatal skiing accident in March 2019, Ingham's perspective on how he can unlock hidden talent, enabling employers to nurture diverse organisations built on an inclusive, winning mindset, has changed.  His fo...

600,000 employees in pub sector – 900,000 when you expand it to brewing 43% of pub staff are aged 25 or below Builders Merchants Federation ( BMF): 760 members have a combined turnover of £38 billion, within the £156 billion total construction industry in the UK members employ over 190,000 people in the industry BMF merchant members operate from over 5,700 branches throughout the UK and Ireland Quotes from employers IKEA IKEA, which employs more than 11,000 people across its 21 UK stores, has continued to support staff throughout the pandemic, with an extensive set of safe working procedu...