Internet as the factor for success

Having their own website pays off even for relatively small DIY retailers

New generation in sales and marketing

Export manager Ingolf Mattheé now heads the interior work sales team

Growth resulting from new stores

Although the French DIY market is reporting sales growth of 4.4 per cent for 2005, this increase was generated solely by new openings of …

The Top 30 in Europe und North America

Radically customer-responsive

Toom, the German DIY retail chain that is part of the Rewe group of companies, has geared its latest store entirely to the customer. A development t…

Slower rhythm

Agnès RichardDIY in Europe, FranceEditor-in-chief, Univers HebdoWill 2006 be the year when the French are won over to do-it-yourself? That is open to question. DIY …

Partners in the Far East

The first "China Sourcing Buying Day" in Shanghai is to be seen as a basis for liaising with Asian, American and European DIY suppliers

Home Depot offers credit and bonus card

DIYers and professionals can pay with the new card and collect bonus points

New divisional manager for Koelnmesse

Metin Ergül takes on responsibility for fairs dedicated to home, garden and leisure themes