UK and Ireland - Statistics Republic of Ireland

One top dog and many stores

On the Irish DIY and hardware market, not only chains with more or less big boxes are active, but also several cooperatives of independent hardware …

Uk and Ireland - Statistics

DIY remains very popular

The Hardware Association Ireland presents good branch statistics for 2018. These match the results of a consumer survey which confirm even the young Irish …

UK and Ireland - Garden centres

Resilience to economic uncertainty

While the British retail sector is suffering under consumers’ Brexit worries and its online competitors, garden centres are reinventing …

UK and Ireland - the big three

Traditional DIY retailers losing share

The big three in the UK market– B&Q, Wickes and Homebase – are currently having a hard time. They are losing out to the B2B/B2C hybrids and …

Bathroom furniture

Smart and sexy

In the distribution of bathroom furniture, mirror cabinets and illuminated mirrors, DIY retailers play a significant role throughout Europe. And the product group is…

Statistics

Growth from abroad

The top 10 German DIY store operators grew by almost three per cent last year. But this amount of increase is only achieved from their foreign activities

Italy

Stability comes to Italy

The DIY retailers south of the Alps are growing again. In 2018 the number of DIY stores increased for the fourth year in a row

UK and Ireland - Statistics

Average exception

The density of DIY stores in the otherwise dominant England with its Greater London area corresponds exactly to the share of population and GDP

Statistics Dähne Verlag

Stable ranking in the top 30

Major statistics on the anniversary of DIY International: the 30 largest DIY store operators in the world with their current figures

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 …

Editorial

Lessons learned from over 30 years

Nordic countries - Gardena/Husqvarna

Nordic background

The German garden brand Gardena enjoys success in the Nordic countries thanks to its link with Swedish parent company Husqvarna

Nordic countries - Iceland

Also very well supplied with home improvement stores

Iceland is one of the richest countries in Europe. The sparsely populated volcanic island is also one of the front-runners in …

Nordic countries - Finland

Concept instead of king-size

DIY International asked Minna Liuksiala, managing director of Rasi Ry, Finnish Hardware Association, for an assessment of the current situation on the …