Table of contents

• Comment

• 3Do you remember?

• Distribution

• 11USA: HIRI forecasts further growth in 2021

  12Philippines: new strategies for the new normal

  14Interview with Andrea Scown from Mitre 10, one of the few female CEOs worldwide

  18"Forget the excuses": Thierry Coeman and his recently published essay "Hammertime"

  20The French home improvement market grew by 13 per cent

  22Winners’ podium is rearranged in Germany’s DIY retail industry

  23German industry association: "A good but challenging year"

  24Austria and Switzerland: almost identical growth rates

  25Machine learning science and retail pricing

• Regional report

• 26Statistics: the home improvement industry in the Nordic countries are strongly interconnected

  31Building and home improvement trade: Finns in a DIY boom

  32Nordics - The Byggmax Group is committed to the discount principle

  34Nordics - Välinge wants to pass on its flooring know-how to the DIY trade

• Focus

• 37Recycled scissors and net-zero energy stores

  38Bravo: quality products, social commitment and customer service

  40Sustainability - Bellaflora’s positioning as a company which acts sustainably

• EDRA/Fedyma

• 42Global DIY-Network: news from the Edra studios in Cologne

• Events

• 46Messe Frankfurt: Consumer Goods Digital Day

  48Virtual and physical: Taiwan Hardware Show 2021

• Garden suppliers

• 50Seilflechter, the all-rounder among ropes