The German DIY retailer’s Troisdorf store is the first to offer a display of four living-room styles; the company is planning to reorganise its six other stores as well
New image for Cofaq
The French cooperative group Cofaq has come up with a uniform store image for its trading formats and affiliated stores. The intention is to demonstrate the …
Never-ending growth?
Further consolidation
Among the three major DIY nations in Europe, the British DIY multiples head the field in terms of sales growth and progress of the consolidation process: just…
The 30 biggest DIY multiples in Europe
New competitors
In the United States independent hardware retailers are coming under increasing pressure through the expansion of big drug chains that offer low-cost, impulse-type …
Turkey's first warehouse-style Koctas store
Koçtas has opened its first warehouse-style DIY store in the greater Istanbul area after last year’s merger with B&Q, the DIY …
Exclusivity and advice
The concept of Expo Ambiente, a subsidiary of the Bauhaus group, is continuing to create a sensation. It is designed to appeal primarily to medium and high …
Vigorous expansion in the Netherlands
Hornbach has acquired two Intratuin garden centres that are being converted to the Hornbach concept. Four new megastores are also at the …
Anniversary for Baumax
Over the past 25 years Baumax has progressed from Austrian builders' merchant to international DIY retail chain
The euro is coming
Wealth on the upswing in central and eastern Europe
GfK study reveals purchasing power in 40 European countries
Retailers see off the worst
After a difficult few years the British DIY market has regained some of its former strength, and is now moving ahead with a renewed sense of optimism
A story almost without end
Having acquired a piece of land in Alblasserdam in the Netherlands as long ago as 1997, Hornbach only managed to open its ninth DIY store in that country…
Speedy expansion
Baucenter, the Russian DIY chain, has six stores in operation at the moment. The company intends to have 30 outlets throughout the country by 2011