Netherlands - Gamma

Store with a speciality

The new Gamma store in Goes not only embodies the new Focus concept of the parent group; operator Esselink also offers 3D printing as a special service

Netherlands - Hubo

With an eye on Germany too

A DIY store operator is reinventing itself. In the Netherlands, Hubo is radically remodelling its sales channel

Statistics

“We couldn’t resist”

“Statistics Home Improvement Retail Europe” is also extended in the 2018 edition: for the first time, the statistical standard work provides an overview of two…

Homebase

Exit after brief intermezzo

Two years ago the takeover, now the retreat: the short Homebase adventure by Wesfarmers

Netherlands - Analysis

12 x 13

12 provinces and 13 DIY store operators – this is the matrix within which the analysis of the Dutch home improvement market takes place for the regional report in this …

Coop Bau + Hobby

An upmarket ambience

It’s called upgrading: in its extended and modernised store in Sissach, Coop Bau + Hobby is trialling the new concepts with which the Swiss market leader aims …

Editorial

The empires strike back

Belgium - Brussels

DIY stores for Brussels!

Belgium is divided into the two regions of Flanders and Wallonia, which both have a very different density of DIY stores. But clearly under-represented is …

Q1 2018 sales development of DIY retailers

The statistics experts at Dähne Verlag have collated the interim results of 17 DIY store operators in Europe, North and South America and…

Top 10 DIY retailers in North and South America

The top 10 DIY retailers in North and South America achieved combined net sales of EUR 203.7 bn in 2017. On a euro basis, that was 1…

Spain - Catral

Everything for the gardens of Europe

The Spanish plastics specialist Catral has added to its wide range of garden accessories with a new recycling material

Spain - Flowers and plants

Benefiting from the green boom

Spanish exports of flowers and plants have recorded a double-digit increase in the last year, with nearly all segments benefiting

Spain - AFEB

Improving consumer knowledge

César Navarro, chairman of the Spanish manufacturers’ association AFEB, talks about the challenges that manufacturers and retailers must tackle jointly…

Spain - ADFB

Digitalisation, innovation, logistics

These are the three buzzwords cited by Guillermo Leal, chairman of the Spanish retailers’ association ADFB, when asked about the greatest …