With the start of the new English Premier League season edging closer, Stanley has announced that it will again play host to a fantasy football tournament, running for the duration of the 2013-2014 season. 

Home shopping channel QVC has launched two new channels, one dedicated to its fashion lines and the other, QVC Extra, showing the best of its entire product range. 

Ikea has created an augmented reality app for customers to trial new products from the comfort of their own home. 

Household cleaning giant Dyson has been left red faced after the ASA overruled its challenge whether ads for the new Stanley Black & Decker steam mop were misleading due to unsubstantiated claims. 

The DIY and housewares industry charity The Rainy Day Trust has welcomed another Partner in this, its 170th birthday year. 

Members of the British Home Enhancement Trade Association are being offered special rates to take part in a show that will bring them face to face with the cream of garden and home consumer journalists. 

Work has begun on a new multi-million-pound Next Home and Garden store in Hedge End, near Southampton. 

RA Meredith & Son, a supplier of plants to major DIY and garden centre retailers, has been rescued via a pre-pack administration. 

The Oak Furniture Land chain has been taken to task by the Advertising Standards Authority for misleading customers over delivery times on its website. 

Watford MP Richard Harrington has paid a visit to his local B&Q to watch children in action helping to save Hertfordshire's bees. 

The British Retail Consortium has reported a 2.2% like-for-like increase in UK retail sales for July, with the recent heatwave leading to mixed figures for the DIY/gardening industries. 

Home Hardware Scotland says it has enjoyed the best July on record, thanks to a huge uplift in sales of DIY and garden products. 

With value growth of 16% compared with the same month last year, the DIY and gardening sector stood out as a clear winner in the durables sector during June, according to the latest report from GfK. 

A Herefordshire DIY store has increased its selling area more than tenfold after expanding into new premises - and is now preparing to add a garden centre. 

Longacres, which claims to be the largest independent garden centre in the south-east of England, has acquired a second outlet. 

Next month's Glee exhibition is calling for entries into its New Product Showcase, hoping to find the next big thing or something with the potential to boost the profits of any garden retailer. 

Garden products supplier Greentree has been acquired by Smart Solar for an undisclosed sum, and its founder Gary Ackers has been appointed to a new role of commercial director. 

Norwich-based value retailer QD Stores has announced it will be opening an online shopping channel to complement its high street business. 

Customers and staff at Fryers Garden Centre in Knutsford had to be evacuated this week after a fire started in an electrical cupboard. 

Business has boomed at Robert Dyas following its July 2012 takeover by former Dragon's Den star Theo Paphitis, with operating profits up to £4.89m for the year to March 30, 2013 - an uptake of 353% since last year's £1.08m.