Professional Builders Merchant

Much as though it might seem I am repeating myself by talking about it, we couldn’t let the news pass that a further four TradePoint outlets opened their doors on February 4th without speculating once more about how this development will affect the traditional market picture.

Depending on which reports you read, 2011 promises to either be yet another depressingly challenging year as public spending cuts bite and the new build market continues to stagnate…

I’m certainly not what you could call a ‘techno geek’; the World Wide Web as we know it today was barely out of short trousers when I was at college and all my essays were handwritten. But now? Like everyone else, I simply couldn’t do my job without email, the internet or a mobile.

With the Party Conference season having just finished and the Government’s 2010 Spending Review soon to be announced (at the time of writing), it is an apt moment for the Get Britain Building coalition to seek to raise awareness and gain more leverage with its latest initiative to promote the building industry and the contribution it can make to the UK’s economic recovery.

Following his stellar turn in Malta at THE Conference 2007, the opportunity to hear the Evening Standard’s Anthony Hilton speak at the recent BMF Members Day was too good to miss.