Canadian company reports a fall in profits of over 54 per cent for the first quarter
Serious challenges ahead
It is too early to say yet what Focus Do It All is going to do with the recently acquired Wickes stores. But even before it suddenly became a chain of over…
New event venue
Fediyma Forum to take place this year for the first time in Barcelona
Marked rise in Germany
DIY stores in Germany break through the € 4 bn sales barrier after just three months of 2007
The Italian world of DIY
Giulia Arrigoni, DIY in Europe Italy28 million Italians take an interest in DIY, according to a study by Infratest Burke on behalf of Henkel. This figure …
Launch in Croatia
First Obi opens its doors in Slavonski Brod
Moderate growth
Canadian Tire increased its comparable store sales by 1.3 per cent in the retail trade in the first quarter
Germans are still Europe's keenest DIYers
One in three euros spent in the European market overall gets paid into a German till. The European Consumer Barometer of the Cetelem …
Ebbing consumer intentions
Europe's consumers are intending to spend less on DIY projects this year