The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has announced that it has moved its head office to Chester following the relocation of the Horticultural Trade Association (HTA) to Chilcot. 

Doncaster-based Tembe DIY and Building Products has raised £11,000 for Children with Cancer UK through the sale of HIPPO Heavy Duty Trade Wipes. 

Bunnings UK and Ireland managing director PJ Davis was the headlining speaker at the recent BHETA networking forum at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, last week. 

Marks and Spencer has released its half yearly results, with overall group revenue of £4,993.5m, up 0.9% on last year, but with statutory profit before tax at £25.1m, down 88.4% from last year, the decision has been taken to reduce the number of clothing and home stores. 

B&Q has announced plans to roll out its new format store - introduced at Cribbs Causeway in Bristol over the summer - across 10 stores as well as the introduction of a one hour click-and-collect service. 

Following a rocky nine months, the UK's high street has finally started to grow again according to figures released by the BDO high street sales tracker - and sales of housewares were particularly buoyant. 

Based in Dublin, Ireland, the owners of family-run import and distribution firm Lucretia Tiles have launched Tile Devil, an online retailer aimed squarely at the UK home improvement market. 

Garden Centres in Leeds, Bristol and Guildford facing the challenge of understanding and employing a new working generation are being invited to workshops with an international training company to help debunk the labels given to millennials this December. 

French DIY and gardening company ManoMano, which launched in the UK earlier this year, is hosting its Global Influence IRL (in real life) Event this week in Paris. 

Bunnings has confirmed that the Homebase store in Griffiths Way, St Albans will be the UK's first to be transformed into Bunnings Warehouse by February 2017. 

A customer service manager at Wickes in Swindon has been jailed for 18 months after stealing more than £70,000 from the tills at work through the operation of a false refund scam. 

Inflation in the UK is set to quadruple to 4% by the second half of next year according to think tank the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR). 

Sales at Next showed an overall decline of 3.5% for its third quarter when compared with last year, with year-to-date revenues down 1.5%, though total sales including markdowns were up a marginal 0.4%. 

A nationwide search for ground-breaking products designed to solve problems in the construction industry has resulted in the naming of six innovation champions to watch in 2017 - including Johnsons Tiles' innovative tile fixing system. 

Woodlodge, supplier of garden pots, experts in horticulture products and gardenware - has raised £2,668 for The Honeypot Children's Charity following sales of its popular themed planters. 

World-leading tools and storage supplier Stanley Black & Decker has joined the British Home Enhancement Trade Association (BHETA). 

B&Q customers who've made use of the retailer's Valspar in-store paint mixing service have complained that the tins are coming open on the journey home and causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to their cars. 

The Horticultural Trades Association moved into new offices in Didcot, Oxfordshire recently. 

A customer services employee from Screwfix in Folkestone was recently sentenced to two years in a Young Offenders' Institution after it was discovered he had stashed two guns in a shed at the store. 

In a bid to gauge the level of customer service offered by hardware shops across its corporate membership, Home Hardware recently carried out a mystery shopper campaign.