DIY sales volume grows

The manufacturers’ association UNIBAL has ascertained that the French DIY market achieved a volume of € 16.94 bn last year. DIY retail outlets accounted for € 10.87 bn of the total. At 5.3 per cent, their growth was above the 4.2 per cent rate of increase for the market volume taken as a whole.
The specialist magazine DIY in Europe has included a detailed account of the French market in the special statistics supplement published with its latest issue.