City store formats – Leroy Merlin

Métro, boulot, brico

The French DIY market leader Leroy Merlin now has a second inner city store. The concept concentrates entirely on the needs of the urban customers

Home Depot and Lowe's

What unifies and ­divides the giants

Home Depot and Lowe’s, the world’s largest home center chains, forged new sales highs in 2015, but they got there in somewhat different ways

Editorial

Generation rent, share, Internet, etc.

Russia

Online is booming

In Russia e-commerce with DIY and building products reports double-digit growth rates. And more potential still remains

Russia

The crisis and who gains from it

The Russian DIY market is currently characterised by downturns. However, this development isn't the same everywhere. It's not just the big players …

Russia

Stagflation batters home and garden retailers

Double-digit inflation combined with a deep recession has made 2015 a year to forget for home and garden specialist retailers in Russi…

Leroy Merlin

Three openings in three days

Leroy Merlin, a member of the French Groupe Adeo, opened five new home improvement centres in Brazil in 2015 and now has a first store in the …

Being big

Wholesaling in America continues to undergo major changes, as the latest company takeovers demonstrate. Growth outside the co-op structure is also increasingly important

Hardware Association (NRHA)

How hardlines retailers performed

The North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) produces a comprehensive analysis of retail operations for three types of US hardlines …

Baumax

Baumax is now history

The sell-off of the former Austrian DIY chain was completed in December 2015

Nordic countries - Kesko Group

Heading for the top three

Euromonitor

Less stuff

Euromonitor International analyses the changing shape of the home improvement and gardening consumer in Western Europe

Europe is changing 

Decline for the second year in a row

In 2015, the DIY retail market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) saw an 11.7 per cent year-on-year decline in value terms. It fell for a …