PHMI tracks plumbing & heating merchants' sales in UK. Produced alongside @theBMBI by @MRA_Research_UK for @bmf_merchants, using @GfK P&H Merchants Panel.
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The latest Plumbing & Heating Merchant Index (PHMI) report shows like-for-like Q2 value sales were -0.2% lower than Q2 2025. Like-for-like volume sales were down -7.8%.
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📈 The Plumbing & Heating Merchants Index (PHMI) monthly growth tracker
May 2026 vs May 2025
⬆ Like-for-like value sales up +1.3%
⬇ Like-for-like volume sales down -8.0%
⬆ Prices up +10.1%
Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4yLrf5R
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📈 The BMBI growth tracker of builders’ merchant sales to builders and trades for the year to date:
⬇ Like-for-like value sales down -2.1%
⬇ Like-for-like volumes sales down -6.8%
⬆ Prices up +5.0%
Full BMBI report: bit.ly/4wzsRyq
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The latest PHMI report shows that for June 2025 - May 2026 vs the previous 12 months…
⬆ Like-for-like value sales up +1.0%
⬇ Like-for-like volume sales down -3.7%
⬆ Prices +4.8% higher
Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4yLrf5R
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The latest PHMI report reveals that sales through Britain’s plumbing and heating merchants saw an increase in like-for-like values sales, while the fall in volumes was offset by the increase in prices.
Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4yLrf5R
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📈 The Plumbing & Heating Merchants Index (PHMI) monthly growth tracker
April 2026 vs April 2025
⬆ Like-for-like value sales up +0.5%
⬇ Like-for-like volume sales down -4.2%
⬆ Prices up +4.9%
Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4p5czdq
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📣 PHMI - Rolling 12 months monitor
The latest PHMI report shows that for May 25 - April 26 vs the previous 12 months…
⬆ Like-for-like value sales up +1.3%
⬇ Like-for-like volume sales down -3.1%
⬆ Prices +4.6% higher
Full report: bit.ly/4p5czdq
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The latest PHMI report, published in June, reveals that sales through Britain’s plumbing and heating merchants stalled in April as an increase in prices offset the drop in volumes.
Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4p5czdq
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📈 The PHMI monthly growth tracker
Mar 26 v Mar 25
⬇ Like-for-like value sales down -2.8%
⬇ Like-for-like volume sales down -5.8%
⬆ Prices up +3.2%
Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4fjb2Om
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Volume sales took a tumble in March to round off a difficult Q1 for Britain’s plumbing and heating merchants, according to the latest PHMI report.
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Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4fjb2Om
Is the impact of the war in Iran already beginning to show? The latest PHMI report reveal sales through Britain’s plumbing and heating merchants faltered in February.
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Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4tHgsac
January PHMI report is out now. @Mike Rigby: “Although merchants’ confidence in the market is low, their sales expectations and confidence in their own business is much more positive.”
Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4eaUxDa
Last 12 months:
⬆ Like-for-like value sales for February 2025 to January 2026 were up +2.9% compared to the previous 12 months
⬇ Like-for-like volume sales -1.1% lower
⬆ Prices +4.0% higher
Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4eaUxDa
Like-for-like January 2026 value sales, adjusted to remove the impact of trading days, were +3.0% higher year-on-year. However, like-for-like volume sales were down -2.8% and prices increased +6.0%.
Full PHMI report: bit.ly/4eaUxDa
UPDATE!
PHMI reports now give more emphasis to like-for-like sales (adjusted for trading days) as a more consistent measure of activity. National & regional merchants prioritise like-for-like; smaller merchants often use both or unadjusted sales.
More: bit.ly/3P8stWD
Was 2025 a good year or one to forget for Britain's specialist plumbing and heating merchants?
Like-for-like sales for Jan to Dec 2025 were up +2.8% compared to 2024.
Like-for-like volume sales were -0.3% lower year-on-year
Full PHMI Q4 2025 report: bit.ly/3P8stWD
