USA/Canada - Home improvement market

Covid brought the next boost

The home improvement market in the USA experienced tremendous growth during the pandemic. Compared to 2019, hardware stores made an average of 20 per …

DemandTec

AI generates results

DIY retailers are seeing measurable benefits from data science-based pricing solutions. Niranjan Chandrasekaran from DemandTec explain how it works and gives …

Good Home

Back on expansion mode

Bruneian home improvement retail chain Good Home is preparing the opening of its third store, its first one that is not located in a mall. Meanwhile, plans …

Brunei

Still growing in Brunei

Although the country’s home improvement loans hit multiyear lows, retailers are optimistic. The DIY concept will increase rapidly after the pandemic, they …

DIY International

Everything stays different

After 32 years, the trade journal DIY International will no longer be released as print edition in future. Instead, it will be an exclusively online …

Mr. DIY

Mall, small, standalone

Reacting on shifting consumer behaviour, Malaysian home improvement retail market leader Mr. DIY is adjusting its store format strategy. Standalone stores …

Editorial

Goodbye, hello

Cashbuild ends 2020/21 with a plus of 25 per cent

The South African DIY store group Cashbuild has completed financial year 2020/2021 (ending 27 June 2021) with an increase in sales…

Eastern Europe - Romania

Another giant for Romania

In Cluj-Napoca, the second largest city in the country, Hornbach has opened its eighth Romanian location. A number nine is already being planned

Eastern Europe - Romania

The stores remained open

Home improvement retailers in Romania were allowed to continue their businesses in 2020 even during the first wave of Covid-19. So they increased their …

Eastern Europe - Russia

Lots of movement on the Russian market

The overall volume of the home improvement market in Russia might not have improved in the pandemic year of 2020, but several DIY store …

Eastern Europe

GDP down, store numbers up

Covid-19 caused economic performance to significantly shrink all over Europe. But even in the pandemic year of 2020, the number of home improvement …

An icon in the industry

US industry expert Bob Vereen has passed away at the age of 96. For three decades, he reported regularly on the home improvement market in the USA for DIY …

Let’s do it

Tools from the shopping centre

The Austrian 3e AG is rolling out its modernised specialist store concept Let’s do it which consistently focuses on the omni-channel and, with that, …