Up-market furniture chain Dwell has ceased trading, it was announced today. 

US chain Orchard Supply Hardware Stores looks set to be acquired by home improvement rival Lowe's after Orchard filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. 

The Garden Centre Group has acquired Barton Grange's Bolton branch to add to the 129 garden centres already within the group. 

B&Q will try to persuade consumers to transform 'unloved rooms' with the launch of a new summer advertising campaign. 

Bord na Móna UK has supplied a pallet of its RSPB-branded Vital Earth compost to plant up the bird protection charity's show garden at BBC Gardeners' World Live. 

Sika has acquired Everbuild, the UK's largest independent manufacturer of sealants, adhesives and construction chemicals, to help strengthen its position in the builder's merchant market. 

Reporting on the first year of its Net Positive sustainability programme, Kingfisher says it has already made progress against its ambitious targets. 

A Cambridgeshire branch of B&Q has been targeted by thieves twice in one week. 

Growing media supplier Durston Garden Products has recorded its highest sales figures ever since the company was established in 1860, despite the continued economic downturn and poor weather. 

Following several consecutive reports of depressed sales, Home Retail Group's Homebase has reported sales growth for the 13 weeks to June 1, 2013, albeit marginal and "behind expectations". 

Following DIY Week magazine and diyweek.net's move to new owner Datateam Publishing this spring, you will no longer be able to contact the team using the old Faversham House contact details. 

The Business Design Centre, London, was packed to the rafters once again for Exclusively Housewares this week, with suppliers and retailers crossing the country to mull over the latest trends at the forefront of the homewares industry. 

Mo Iqbal, former owner of Tile Giant, has joined forces with former Topps Tiles commercial director Jeremy Harris to form a specialist tiles etailer called Tile Mountain. 

Fraudsters are still operating a scam whereby suppliers are led to believe that Tesco wants to place an order with them. 

Kingfisher CEO Ian Cheshire has named two of his colleagues as his possible successors after he leaves the company. 

B&Q is launching a trial tool trade-in in Bristol this week, which will invite people to hand in broken or old garden hand tools for recycling in return for a saving on replacement tools. 

More than 600 delegates and participants flocked to Rome from more than 41 countries, including Australia, Peru and Russia, for the 2nd Global DIY Summit last week, chaired by EDRA, fediyma and GHIN. 

Consumers spent £20m more on DIY during the two weeks around the May 27 bank holiday than they did last year. 

Chapel‐en‐le‐Frith store Hall’s Mica Hardware has celebrated its quarter-century in business this year with a weekend of giveaways, special offers and a charity prize draw. 

London-based chain Lords has opened a new flagship store in the west of the capital which it says is unlike anything seen before in the hardware and DIY market.