DCM

The store of the future is technical and digital

Smart Home Center is the name of a project started by Japanese home improvement retail group DCM when it was implemented in a pilot…

Editorial

DIY getting more expensive

Nordics - Finland

Finns in a DIY boom

The Finnish building and home improvement trade segment grew by 4.8 per cent in 2020. Best performing category was lawn and garden achieving a plus of 16 per …

Nordics - Statistics

Preferring to stay amongst themselves

The home improvement industry in the five Nordic countries Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland are strongly interconnected with each …

DemandTec

A pricing reboot

Niranjan Chandrasekaran from DemandTec explains how machine learning science can recharge retailers’ pricing

Austria and Switzerland

Neighbours grow equally strongly

DIY stores in Austria and Switzerland increase their sales in 2020, the year of the pandemic, by a little more than 10 per cent. There are some …

BHB

"A good but challenging year"

Sales in German home improvement stores up by 14 per cent during the Covid-19 year 2020. However, the retailers commenced the current year with sales …

Statistics

Winners’ podium rearranged

The year 2020 brought about several shifts among the top 5 of the German DIY trade, as statistics from the Dähne Verlag publishing house show. The …

France

111 per cent

France’s home improvement market grew by 13 per cent in 2020, but the growth of the DIY stores was only half as great. However, their online business has grown by …

Mitre 10

"Diversity is important"

As one of the few female CEOs worldwide, Andrea Scown is at the helm of Mitre 10 New Zealand. In an interview with DIY International, she explains the …

HIRI

Better than expected

Following a 13.8 per cent growth in 2020, the sales of home improvement products in the USA will increase by another 9.9 per cent this year, market research …

Nordics - Byggmax Group

"We are still a hard discounter"

The Swedish Byggmax Group is committed to the discount principle also with its new concept 3.0, which is based on the idea of the specialist store:…

Thierry Coeman

"Forget the excuses!"

Thierry Coeman has been involved in the home improvement industry for over thirty years, but his focus is on its future. He has now published an essay …

Philippines

New strategies for the new normal

In the Philippines, which were hard hit by the pandemic, home improvement stores have improvised for the situation with new marketing and new …