Trading group changes business model and appoints new board of directors, while managing director Steve Ball takes up role of chief executive. 

Wickes is trialling smaller format kitchen and bathroom stores in a bid to soak up market share left by the collapse of MFI in 2008. 

Average UK family £6 a week worse off in February 2010 than they were a year ago. 

Non-food inflation drops 0.6% – the first time since the VAT reversal – as retailers drive footfall with promotional activity over the Easter period. 

The Garden Centre Group tested trading laws last weekend by opening 74 stores across England and Wales on Easter Sunday despite the ban. 

British economy avoids a double-dip recession but the country is still at serious risk of a setback, according to results of recent survey. 

Thursday 3rd June - a date for the diary and not to be missed. An opportunity to spend a day at the UK's premier clay shooting school along with some of the UK's Top DIY & Home Enhancement Suppliers and Retailers. 

The commercial division of ADP has returned to private ownership, four years after its acquisition from Kerridge. 

B&Q, Europe's largest DIY retailer, has become a corporate member of the Rainy Day Trust, the charity of the home improvement industry. 

US firms Danaher Corp, which makes the Craftsman tool brand, and Cooper Industrial, whose brands include Campbell, Apex and Crescent, have announced a joint tool venture. 

B&Q parent Kingfisher has decided to release its freehold development site at Fiveways in Croydon. 

A series of new property tax increases could harm retailers' ability to support the millions of jobs they provide, the British Retail Consortium said today. 

Litre bottles of new Wee&Q will retail for just 10p, made up of urine collected from the DIY store's plumbing system. 

Jeff Moody and Ray Taylor, two of the three-strong team who led a management buyout of BDC in 2008, have left the company. The third, Steve Gallagher, has been retained as commercial director by new md Eamonn Swift. 

Clarion Events, organiser of Garden Expo 2010, has announced the show has been cancelled due to lack of support. 

Topps Tiles has reported, ahead of the period close, stronger sales than last year for the 27-weeks to April 3. However, the company still sees consumer confidence as 'unstable' and describes trading in the second quarter as "subdued". 

Despite promises of the 'don't move, improve' trend boosting DIY sales, UK homeowners would rather spend their money on travel and clothing, says Mintel. 

A new Homebase survey revealed the top five DIY jobs people are likely to do this Easter weekend are garden planting, putting in new flooring, replacing the bathroom, replacing the kitchen and laying decking or patio. 

The employment tribunal brought by Miranda Harris against former employer DLF Trifolium for sexual discrimination and sexual harassment has been resolved according to both parties. 

Intruders take safe from concession store in night time raid at garden centre site.