Exel, French market leader in the field of sprayers, has now established itself in the water technology market as well.
Première for Paris fair
Créabitat, the fair for interior decoration and DIY pro-ducts, had its first test run from 25 to 27 September within the framework of the “Salons d’…
Future-oriented changes
The Tabur group has introduced a new organisational structure, which will ensure changes within its marketing arms and affiliated retailers
Moderate growth of floorspace
Last year the DIY retail trade in France saw rather good progress. Despite some caution where new openings were concerned, the discounter concept is …
Austria’s largest grouping
Austria is the only foreign country so far where Hagebau has any involvement. There the cooperative is growing at a double-digit rate, faster than …
Challenge for retailers
The new European-wide legislation on chemical substances will enter into force on 1 June 2007. This will result in an increased need for communication in …
Online offensive in Britain
DIY retailers in the United Kingdom are opening up the internet for online trading, thereby confirming its great potential as a channel of distribution
Serious challenges ahead
It is too early to say yet what Focus Do It All is going to do with the recently acquired Wickes stores. But even before it suddenly became a chain of over…
The Italian world of DIY
Giulia Arrigoni, DIY in Europe Italy28 million Italians take an interest in DIY, according to a study by Infratest Burke on behalf of Henkel. This figure …
Germans are still Europe's keenest DIYers
One in three euros spent in the European market overall gets paid into a German till. The European Consumer Barometer of the Cetelem …
Customers regard DIY stores as an uninspired patchwork of goods and services
Konzept & Markt and Dähne Verlag have together carried out a major survey of DIY store customers. …
Switzerland: More competition
Bauhaus’s market entry last year has further exacerbated the competitive situation for Swiss DIY retailers
Austria: Significance of DIY products
Of the € 2 536 spent by Austrian households on average per month in 2005, 5.3 per cent went on DIY products
Megastore with German imprint
Vietnam’s first shopping centre for the building, living and furnishing sectors is located in Hanoi. It features an 8 000 m² DIY department for which …
New name
The French Leroy Merlin Group is now called Groupe Adeo. The reason for the change is to exclude any possibility of confusion between the group and the trading format of …