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

Gamma Belgium’s quarter-century

In 1978 the Netherlands retail group, Gamma, decided to expand into Belgium, where it now operates 69 DIY stores with annual sales of € …