Latest news from the home improvement and garden industry

Chile

SMU sells building materials and DIY chain Construmart

The Chilean retail group SMU has sold its building materials and DIY chain Construmart for USD 50.625 mio. The new owner is the private equity firm Hammer. The decision to sell was already announced last year. At the …

News4. July 2018

Market entry

Jem & Fix sees potential for 50 stores in Norway

The Danish DIY store chain Jem & Fix sees a potential of up to 50 locations in Norway. That is what country manager Kennet …

News3. July 2018

Online competition

Migros undergoes transformation and cuts back on jobs

The Swiss retail group Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund (MGB) is simplifying its organisation and internal processes in the central…

News2. July 2018

17 per cent more exhibitors

Hortiflorexpo IPM Beijing attracts 22 per cent more visitors

Hortiflorexpo IPM Beijing 2018 drew to a close with big increases in all figures. From 10 to 12 May 2018 the New China …

News29. June 2018

Global DIY sales

From minus 15 to plus 7 per cent in the first quarter and everything in between

From minus 15 per cent to plus 7 per cent: that's the spread in sales variations of DIY store …

News28. June 2018

Statistics

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…

Distribution28. June 2018

Groupe Adeo

Bricoman operating as Obramax in Brazil

Bricoman has its first store in Brazil under the changed brand name Obramax. Bricoman is a chain of builders' merchants belonging to Groupe …

News27. June 2018

Consors Finanz

Nine per cent of millennials only buy DIY products online

Nearly one in ten millennials in Europe (nine per cent) buys products in the furnishings/DIY articles/garden category on …

News26. June 2018

Reorientation

Hagebau embraces digital transformation

Hagebau is currently getting to grips with digital transformation, as revealed by the agenda for the associates' meeting of the building …

News25. June 2018

First-quarter sales in all Hornbach stores increased by 2.8 per cent.

Hagebau sales increase in the first six months

The German building materials and DIY store cooperative Hagebau increased its group sales in the first six months of 2018 by 4.0 per …

News25. June 2018

Edra/Ghin

Recycling more together

With a new strategy from the Make It Zero initiative, the DIY sector aims to reduce emissions from …

Distribution

WD-40

The first of its kind

The WD-40 Company Limited is launching an Ecolabel-certified multi-purpose lubricant in Europe.

Suppliers

Aveve

Moving away from 'one-size-fits-all'

In Bornem, the garden centre chain Aveve has unveiled its new shop concept, with which the parent …

Garden

WD-40

The first of its kind

The WD-40 Company Limited is launching an Ecolabel-certified multi-purpose lubricant in Europe.

Suppliers5. August 2026

Edra/Ghin

Recycling more together

With a new strategy from the Make It Zero initiative, the DIY sector aims to reduce emissions from …

Distribution4. August 2026

Private Labels in European DIY

Changing rules of the game

Own-brand products aren’t the problem, says Fiorella Origlia; being replaceable is. The former …

Suppliers29. July 2026

SMU sells building materials and DIY chain Construmart

Jem & Fix sees potential for 50 stores in Norway

Migros undergoes transformation and cuts back on jobs

Hortiflorexpo IPM Beijing attracts 22 per cent more visitors

From minus 15 to plus 7 per cent in the first quarter and everything in between

Q1 2018 sales development of DIY retailers

Bricoman operating as Obramax in Brazil

Nine per cent of millennials only buy DIY products online

Hagebau embraces digital transformation

Hagebau sales increase in the first six months

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Recycling more together

The first of its kind

Moving away from 'one-size-fits-all'

The first of its kind

Recycling more together

Changing rules of the game