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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...Most popular news
Suki double winner at the DIY Week Awards
Screw-it-Again, Suki's repair anchor for wood, received two awards in England: "DIY Product of the Year" and the "Jury Prize" View news...
Praktiker in Sofia nearly twice as big and energy-efficient
Praktiker Bulgaria has modernised its store on the Tsarigradsko Boulevard in the capital Sofia and expanded it. Among other things, the retail area View news...
New Outdoor Supply Hardware stores in seven former Orchard locations
Central Network Retail Group (CNRG), a multi-format, multi-brand retailer currently operating 104 hardware stores in the USA, wants to open new View news...
The trend towards do-it-for-me is becoming established, but more slowly than expected
Italians and Poles get the most enjoyment from DIY projects, while the Dutch and the British like them least. This is the picture suggested by the View news...
Plantorama increases sales and profit
The Danish Garden Centre chain Plantorama, with its eleven stores, has increased net revenue by 2.3 per cent to DKK 434 mio (EUR 58.2 mio). Earnings View news...
Wickes with double-digit growth rates like-for-like
In the first quarter of 2019, the British DIY chain Wickes grew in like-for-like sales by 10.5 per cent. In the quarterly report of the parent View news...
Booking of summit tickets on invoice until Friday
Only until Friday of this week, 10 May 2019, will it be possible to book participation in the 7th Global DIY Summit on invoice. As from 11 May, View news...
Spanish Bauhaus branch only during the summer
The German DIY store operator Bauhaus has opened a branch in Girona (Spain) which is focussed on garden product ranges and is only open during the View news...
Actual figures
Statistics Home Improvement Europe
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DIY International 2/2019
Distribution
DIY market
Generally positive
The DIY market in the EU has developed more steadily again in recent years. Only in the garden can weaknesses be seen View article...
Suppliers
Krinner
The Christmas experts
The German think tank Krinner continues to offer innovations for the Christmas tree View article...
Regional report
Nordic countries - Finland
Undisputed market leader
The Kesko Group dominates the Finnish home improvement market. Countless domestic and foreign players are also operating in the market View article...
6th Global DIY Summit 2018
Ledvance
LEDVANCE: Impulses for the future of lighting
How is the lighting business changing? Fascinating answers to this question were provided at the Global DIY Summit at the LEDVANCE stand. This is wher View article...
Archive
Ikea has arrived in the Paris city centre now too
Ikea has opened its first City Store in France. The 5 400 m² store is in the direct vicinity of Place de la Madeleine, where the French DIY market View news...
IPM Dubai brought forward by three weeks to mid November
The IPM Dubai and the WOP Dubai will be brought forward by three weeks and will now take place from 12 to 14 November 2019 at the Dubai World Trade View news...
30th birthday and Ireland/UK country report
Two events shape the 2/2019 edition of DIY International which is out now: the 30th birthday of the trade journal which was launched in 1989 - then View news...
Home Pro achieves steady growth in a fragile economic environment
Thai home improvement group Home Pro is growing steadily, but without coming anywhere near to replicating the high, often double-digit growth rates View news...
Lowe’s pulls out of Mexico
Lowe's has closed all of its 13 stores in Mexico, according to several newspapers and the trade press in the South American country. Reports indicate View news...
Richard McPhail will be Home Depot’s new CFO
Home Depot has announced that Carol Tomé, chief financial officer and executive vice-president of Corporate Services, has decided to retire on 31 View news...
CFO leaves the company
Byggmax CFO Pernilla Walfridsson, who entered the comany in 2005, has announced that she has decided to leave her position for new challenges View news...
Birthday cake for 10th Table ronde Bricolage
Small celebration in Paris: the "Round table of the DIY industry" ("La table ronde Bricolage"), which is famous in the French View news...
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