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Home improvemenet is trendy
The DIY market in France is based on sound values: home and family have top priority for the French. Which means that DIY and gardening are now trendier…
Cusstom-made care
Thuisin is a retail format that has quite unobtrusively had four paint and wallpaper stores in operation in the Netherlands for three years already. But now …
Old idea in a new guise
Hardware retailers in the United States are again tending to look more closely at housewares
“Meeting customers halfway”
For the Italian FDT Group, service has a crucial role to play when it comes to customer loyalty. Regular staff training is also part of the recipe
Under new management
Home Depot is getting back to basics under the leadership of Frank Blake, its new CEO
Change as an essential requirement
Bob Vareen, DIY in Europe, USAIn the United States, as elsewhere in today's world of retailing, changes are happening faster than ever before. …
Hoppe-Gruppe: Functional design elements
The Hoppe group develops, produces and distributes window and door furniture, in which segment it lays claim to be the European market …
Obi: Formula for success
OBI opened its first DIY store in 1970. Today the company is number one in Germany and number two in Europe with its successful franchising formula
Ever larger formats
A continuing trend towards large-format stores and greater efforts at foreign expansion characterise the development of the German DIY store sector
DIY boom in Brazil
The Brazilian hypermarket industry is discovering a new trend – the market for DIY and home improvement products
New large-format concept
Baumax has reworked its megastore concept and implemented it for the first time in Stadlau. The core aspects are a larger building materials section and …
Misunderstanding or a question of definition?
Since the beginning of this year astonishing figures have been appearing in the trade press for the number of DIY stores in Austria, …
Acquisition-fuelled growth
Bricorama’s founder Jean-Claude Bourrelier has estab-lished the success of this French DIY group through deliberately making strategic a…
Expansion in area and price pressure
Heidi Biehl, DIY in Europe AustriaSince the German companies Hagebau, Hornbach, OBI and Praktiker entered the Austrian market in 1995, a …