Based on figures

Even if no spectacular upheavals took place in the individual European countries last year, reliable data on how the markets have developed remains one of the foundations on which players in the sector base their decisions. Appearing annually, the Statistics Home Improvement Europe are committed to delivering this information and German publishing house Dähne Verlag is currently compiling the 2019 edition. From mid-August it will bring readers right up to date.
Apart from the usual variations in store numbers and retail areas, however, one or two shifts occurred. The companies dropping out of the Top 20 home improvement store operators worldwide in 2018 were Hagebau (Germany), Kohnan (Japan) and Rautakesko (Finland), while True Value (USA), the Groupe Mousquetaires (France) and XL-Bygg (Denmark) moved up into this group. Within the global Top 10, Menards (USA) and Bunnings (Australia) swapped places after the Australians lost the sales of the Homebase stores in Great Britain and Ireland.
There were minor changes in the 20 European DIY retailers with the strongest sales too. Epicentr, the market leader in the Ukraine, has appeared in these rankings for the first time, while the French Cofaq Group has disappeared from the Top 20.

The garden category of Statistics Home Improvement Europe has been expanded somewhat. Here the editorial team also includes a ranking of the five biggest country markets with their market volume, plus an overview of the respective shares of the product categories in the green market of the countries of Europe.
The layout of the statistics compendium, for which the editorial team of the DIY International trade journal is responsible, retains the proven format of the last few years. It features a chapter respectively on DIY retailers in Europe and worldwide, then the extensive data section on 31 European countries with the number of stores and retail areas, and finally shorter chapters on the garden market and on e-commerce.