France: DIY multiples – per cent change of sales

Per cent change compared with the same month of the previous yearJuly 20011,3Augus 20014,6September 20012,0October 20013…

New look

This issue marks the inauguration of a new look for DIY in Europe. The individual articles have been given more colour, making them more visually attractive

Bricomarché’s cultural revolution

Bricomarché has put into practice a new distribution concept that is designed to give its stores a more modern image and ensure increased …

Market entry in anniversary year

Hornbach has discovered Switzerland as a new area to target for expansion, opening a first DIY store at Littau near Lucerne

Wave of expansion in central Europe

The signs on the DIY market continue to point to expansion in the transition countries of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Store …

The 30 biggest DIY multiples in Europe

Does the European DIYer exist?

A resounding “no” is the message contained in the first pan-European study of 11 500 households in the United Kingdom, France and Germany …

Satisfaction among Holland’s DIY retailers

With market growth at 5.3 per cent last year the operators of DIY superstores in the Netherlands succeeded in recording sales …

Internet approaches

All the Danish DIY chains apart from Bauhaus are present on the internet. However, Bauhaus intends to go online sometime this year with a product range for …

Bricorama Benelux on new course

Bricorama intends to turn the 37 Wickes stores it has acquired in Holland and Belgium into a profitable marketing arm that is of interest to …

Of takeover battles

A new generation

With its new SFS-incanto system of hinges SFS Stadler AG is breaking through traditional fastening system structures

Wöschnau Do It: total makeover and extension

The Do It superstore in Wöschnau, inaugurated 18 years ago and definitely showing its age, reopened in mid-March after renovations and …

Troublesome lobby

Migros cannot start up its OBI stores as speedily as was originally intended. Lobbyists are very influential in Switzerland