The GfK has presented figures for the most significant product categories in the DIY market
Mr. Bricolage takes heart
Mr. Bricolage has presented its new concept in a pilot store at Moulins-Yzeure. The intention is to position the group somewhere between the realms of d…
Satisfactory growth
The DIY landscape in Italy will in the future be characterised by retail companies that are represented on both a national and a regional scale
Expansion of area despite declining sales
The year 2002 was in retrospect a poor one for the DIY sector in Germany. Nevertheless, despite a decline in space productivity, the DIY …
Monthly sales progress
The rates of change in the sales achieved by the large-format DIY superstores in France are being recorded on a monthly basis.
Only one Bauhaus outlet so far
Since 1997 Bauhaus has had just the one Home Store in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana
OBI aims for top slot
Currently OBI operates three DIY superstores spread throughout Slovenia
On home ground
Merkur is the only home-grown competitor among the DIY retailers in Slovenia
Medium-term: eight Baumax stores
It is no more than a stone’s throw over the border into the neighbouring country to the south for these Austrians, who operate three stores …
Steadily growing DIY market in Slovenia
The market will reach saturation point within five years if the DIY retail groups carry out their plans in Slovenia
Hubo strengthens market position
Hubo has become the major national DIY retail group in Belgium through acquisition of the DIY stores belonging to the French Bricomarché group
Belgium’s market in process of change
The experts are all agreed: The year 2002 brought great changes to the Belgian DIY sector
Slow-down in growth
Signs of below-average growth for the DIY market in the Netherlands are for the first time in ages becoming apparent for the year 2002, and the same is being …
Obi: Financial year 2002/2003
Hubo Belgium goes east
Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, is where Hubo Belgium has opened a first DIY store