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Lessons learned from over 30 years
DIY International is celebrating its 30th birthday. Originally established as "DIY in Europe", the magazine has been reporting international DIY...View comment...
Building and renovation - Euromonitor International
Good news
Weaker construction activity, climbing house prices and an older housing stock create more renovation demand in Europe, says Erika Sirimanne from Euromonitor... View article...
Climate change
Figures dictated by the weather
Climate change has arrived in the home improvement sector – at least, that’s how the sector figures for last year from Germany, Austria and Switzerland... View article...
Praktiker Hungary grows by 20 per cent in 2018
Praktiker Hungary reports record sales for 2018. Returns rose by 19.5 per cent to HUF 57.1 bn (EUR 178 mio). Thus, the company has claimed second View news...
Participants rate 7th Global DIY Summit as very good
The majority of participants of the 7th Global DIY Summit in Dublin last week gave the event very good ratings. In the survey, which was carried out View news...
Industry Tools by Ferroforma in the new trade fair association +Industry
Last week, from 4 to 6 June 2019, the newly founded trade fair association +Industry took place in Bilbao (Spain). It included the also refocused View news...
The latest figures from Germany, Austria and Switzerland
The new "Statistik Baumarkt + Garten D-A-CH 2019" is out now. In it, the statistics experts at the German publishing house Dähne Verlag View news...
Digital showroom, disaster response and provocative look into the future
With a once again thematically wide-ranging farewell session, the 7th Global DIY Summit in Dublin came to an end last Friday, 7 June 2019. Neil View news...
China and Asia at the start of the second day
The second day of the 7th Global DIY Summit in Dublin started thematically with a focus on Asia and China. In this sense, Andreas Kerschner from the View news...
From leadership via corporate culture to artificial intelligence
Leadership, innovation, corporate culture, customer demands rising faster than ever before and the new challenges posed by new technologies, View news...
Giroldi: “Together” is the USP of the home improvement industry
"Together" is the USP of this industry and this congress: with this declaration on the cooperation between retailers and manufacturers, View news...
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House-Hasson
Help to be better
House-Hasson Hardware changed from simply being a wholesaler into a marketing and management partner for its customers – and survived View article...
Suppliers
Rothenberger Industrial
Targeting growth through exports
Rothenberger Industrial has established itself in the building market in the segments of soldering and welding, plumbing tools and gas heating products. The company now aims to achieve further growth by expanding its export quota View article...
Regional report
Switzerland - Hornbach
Seven is the magic number
Patience is a virtue for retailers wanting to develop new stores in Switzerland. It has taken Hornbach over ten years to get its store in the Zurich canton View article...
Events
Spoga+Gafa
More international than ever
And bigger than for years. The added-value concept of Spoga+Gafa, which continues to be regarded as the world’s leading green trade show, has proved a success View article...