Steel Lintels

BMBI

29 May 2025

BMBI: Merchant Q1 value sales up +0.9% year-on-year. March up +7.2%.

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The latest total value sales figures from Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) show that sales for Q1 2025 were up +0.9% compared to Q1 2024. Volume sales increased +3.9%, while prices came down -2.9%.

BMBI

28 August 2024

BMBI: Q2 Merchant value sales down -5.8% on Q2 2023. June volumes weak.

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The latest total value sales figures from Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) show that sales for Q2 2024 were down -5.8% compared to Q2 2023.

BMBI

04 January 2023

BMBI: October Merchant sales climb 7.5%, but inflation’s still driving growth

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The latest figures from the Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI), published in December, reveal that builders’ merchants’ value sales were up +7.5% in October 2022, compared to the same month in 2021.

BMBI

28 April 2022

BMBI: February sales up 22.9%, driven more by price inflation than volume growth

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The latest figures from the Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI), published in April, reveal that builders’ merchants’ value sales in February 2022 were 22.9% up on the same month in 2021

Keystone Lintels

28 March 2022

Keystone Lintels awarded Buildbase Supplier of the Year for second year in a row

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Keystone Lintels, the UK’s leading manufacturer of steel lintels, is delighted to once again be awarded ‘Supplier of the Year’ by Buildbase for 2021 in recognition of its outstanding customer service.

BMBI

29 September 2021

BMBI: Timber & Joinery fuels builders’ merchants’ sales growth in July

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The latest figures from the Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) reveal that builders’ merchants’ year-on-year value sales to builders and contractors were 14.5% higher in July 2021 than the same month last year, with two less trading days. Average daily sales in July climbed 25.5%.

BMBI

11 March 2021

Derrick McFarland reflects on the strong performance of the Builders Merchant Industry in Q4 2020

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Derrick McFarland, Managing Director at Keystone Lintels and BMBI’s Expert for Steel Lintels, has reflected on the strong performance of the Builders Merchant Industry at the end of 2020