Further success for buying group, as it adds three new shops, bringing its total membership to 63 throughout Scotland and the North of England. 

Burdens, a supplier of utility and civil engineering products, has sold part of its business to builders merchant Wolseley. 

A Somerset garden centre will re-open tomorrow, November 3, six weeks after a devastating flood caused the business to shut down. 

A record number of over 1.3m Christmas brochures and leaflets has been ordered by Home Hardware retailers. 

Following its half-yearly results, in which Homebase saw a like-for-like sales drop of 6.2%, Home Retail Group has announced it will be closing up to five stores before the end of the current financial year, and has no plans to open any new ones. 

Which? has successfully defended itself against a viewer who complained to the ad watchdog about its television advertisement. 

As the November 13 awards ceremony draws ever closer, judges have finished the gruelling task of shortlisting retailers for Gold in the 2012 DIY Week Awards. Standards were particularly high this year, and judges faced a tough task with two new categories - Store Manager and Retail Communicator - thrown into the mix. 

As part of The Garden Centre Group's ongoing roll-out of concessions within member centres, Wyevale Woodbridge Garden Centre recently opened a new standalone Mountain Warehouse store within a purpose-built retail building onsite. 

The company that makes Pyrex in the US has taken the publisher of an article to court over claims that the products are dangerous. 

Retailers have reported a strong rise in sales volumes during the first two and a half weeks of October, according to the latest Distributive Trades Survey from the CBI. 

Retailers across the garden, DIY and homewares market have been getting into the spirit of Halloween, and their efforts won't be in vain according to UK Point of Sale, who says the season will be the third most significant for retailers behind Christmas and Easter this year. 

A significant over-supply of retail property is contributing to a gloomy picture of the overall commercial real estate construction market. 

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has announced it is fully supporting government legislation banning the import and movement of ash trees in the UK. 

Next upped its forecast for annual pre-tax profit today as it revealed its performance for the third quarter to October 27. 

A travel plug adaptor and a power inverter have both been withdrawn from the market because they can give users an electric shock. 

Another high-profile name has given its support to the DIY Week 2012 Awards. 

The new avocado knife from Kuhn Rikon's successful Colori collection of kitchen knives and gadgets has won an international design accolade. 

Somerset's former Town & Country Hardware store has been transformed into Ilminster Home Hardware, and new owners Phillip and Kate Wyatt launched the store officially earlier this month with the help of the town mayor Roger Swann. 

A West Dunbartonshire garden centre has been fined for discharging insufficiently-treated sewage into a local waterway. 

Since Ironmongery Direct moved to its premises in Basildon a year ago the company has reported that new customers are up 26% on last year and on track to recruit 60,000 new customers this year alone.