BHETA's seventh Meet The Buyer event was hailed as a triumph as suppliers in the garden, DIY and housewares industry got to meet with buyers from The Range. 

The 'It Starts with a Pot' campaign is a cross-industry initiative designed to demonstrate gardening can be fun and Stewart Garden has pledged its support. 

Hundreds of jobs are secure for the next three years as DIY giant B&Q has extended its lease on its depot in Branston, Staffordshire until 2017. 

The warm weather upheld strong sales of barbecues and garden furniture in May, according to the Garden Centre Association (GCA). 

The closing date for entries to win a Garden Industry Manufacturers' Assoication Award is tomorrow, Friday June 20. 

It was announced in January 2013 that Notcutts would transform its Bagshot branch into a purpose-built single site, sharing an entrance hall with Waitrose. 

Following Bathrooms.com successful debut in France last year, the company has now launched in Germany and moved 25% of its manufacturing back to the UK from China in the process. 

Thingmebobs was acquired by QD in January 2013 and now the value retail store operator has opened its first store under the brand in Swaffham, Norfolk. 

The Range looks set to take over another Homebase store, this time in Loughborough. 

Independent housewares store Lawsons of Plymouth is celebrating 110 years of trading in the city this year. 

Exhibitors at last week's Exclusively Housewares say they were impressed by the quality of visitors at the show, which came from a broad spectrum of retail businesses. 

UK shower designer and manufacturer Roman has become a member of the British Contract Furnishing Association (BCFA). 

The number of businesses going under has reached a five-year high, with 1,287 businesses made insolvent in England, Scotland and Wales last year. 

A 5p charge for carrier bags will be introduced in England next year, but the British Retail Consortium says this will cause confusion for customers. 

High streets and shopping centres are losing out to retail parks, which are capitalising on the attractiveness of homewares as house prices continue to rise. 

The industry has welcomed the introduction of the Green Heart, which is a new exhibition at Glee and will see growers and nurseries showing their latest ranges. 

After a successful trial in three garden centres last year, Bonmarché will open a further 15 to 20 concession stores this year. 

Shopworkers union Usdaw is calling for a reform of insolvency regulations, saying that administrators at Deloitte "deliberately flouted the law" when handling the collapse of Comet. 

A man who stole £58,000 from the Nottinghamshire garden centre and swimming pool business where he worked is now behind bars. 

DKB Household has revealed that one of its brands, Cole & Mason, has been awarded CoolBrands status 2014/15.