The Thai DIY store chain Home Pro performed somewhat better in the third quarter, which it attributes to the improvement in the Thai economy. Sales income rose compared with the third quarter of 2016 by 9.27 per cent to…
DIY International
Current edition with major regional report on Italy
The latest edition of the trade journal DIY International has now been published with a major regional report on Italy. Fourteen…
Romanian market leader
Dedeman drops plans for Moldova
The Romanian DIY market leader is evidently giving up its plans to expand into the Republic of Moldova and invest USD 20 mio there. This is …
After less than four years
Clas Ohlson leaves Dubai again
Clas Ohlson pulls out of Dubai again. The Swedish trading company and its franchisee SYH Retail, an Al Homaizi Group company, have jointly decided to…
No significant expansion
Bunnings plans smaller-format stores in the UK
Bunnings plans to open smaller-format stores as part of its pilot programme in the UK, but not until later in the year, according to …
Sales up in Australia
Bunnings sustaining big sales losses with Homebase stores
Bunnings continues to grow strongly in its domestic market in Australia and in New Zealand, but is suffering huge sales …
Falabella
Sodimac’s sales down in its domestic market in Chile
Sodimac, the home improvement division of retail group Falabella, recorded sales of CLP 1 028 833 mio in the first six months o…
International Hardware Fair
European DIY retailing: first six months’ sales only slightly up on previous year
Sales by DIY retailers in Europe in the first six months of the year "only slightly exceeded …
82 stores
Liquidation sales started at Sears Canada
Sears Canada is closing its remaining department stores and Home stores. The liquidation sales have started in the last week. There are 74…
Travis Perkins
Toolstation is growing much more strongly than Wickes
The consumer division of the British Travis Perkins Group, with the chain of DIY stores Wickes and the small format and mail …