Lake District hardware shops Middletons of Kendal and Musgraves of Windermere have both recently taken on the Home Hardware identity. 

Exactly four months after its 2012 show, organisers of Exclusively Housewares have published the full exhibitor list for 2013 - the second year running the show has sold all its spaces in so little time. 

Hopes of a retail revival, raised by September's better figures, have been dashed by new statistics revealing disappointing footfall and poor sales in October. 

With just three months to go before the 2013 Totally shows open, online registration has now gone live. 

Last week's rumours that electrical chain Comet was on the verge of collapse were confirmed on Friday when it called in the administrators. 

Following the sudden departure of Nicholas Marshall, The garden Centre Group has announced the appointment of Kevin Bradshaw as ceo and Nils Steinmeyer as cfo to help drive change and bring GCG "in line with Terra Firma's plans" 

Wayfair, the United States' largest online retailer of homewares and home furnishings, has chalked up £20m of sales in its first year of UK trading from wayfair.co.uk. 

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.