Parent company orders strategic review of loss-making homewares chain. 

Conversion of 53,000sq ft of sales space from concession to own-bought ranges pays off, as department store reports increase in sales and gross margin in 2009. 

Leading paints and coating specialist is the latest big name to come on board for Britain's Best Retailer Awards 2009. 

Essex-based Household2U offers top brands, including Delonghi, Morphy Richards and Panasonic and hopes to create a more user-friendly shopping experience. 

Garden machinery company fined £3,420 for failing to meet recycling obligations. 

Home enhancement retailer bucks the market trend as 'big ticket' sales boost its first half figures. 

Majority of firms believe insurers are not assessing risk accurately and that the Government's top-up scheme should be extended. 

City sales up 7.5% as milder weather encourages people out to the shops and the weakness of the pound attracts overseas visitors. 

Home shopping group recruits 22,000 customers to Gardening Direct in three months. 

Sheffield-based hand tools brand Footprint has recommenced production at its Sedgley Road site in Owlerton, Sheffield under the name Footprint Sheffield, the former holding company of Footprint Tools. 

DIY Week group ad manager Rachael Pearson closed her biggest deal yet when she welcomed her baby daughter Emily into the world last week. 

Jeremy Bird and team of fundraisers reach summit of Mount Kilimanjaro this morning, to raise money for Wickes's chosen charity Leukaemia Research. 

Garden centre manager threatened by two men in robbery at Great Gaddesdon store last Friday. 

Massive fire at Gordon Rigg Garden Centre rages for more than 12 hours, destroying around a quarter of the building. 

Ironmongery Direct has continued its trend-bucking year with another quarter of like-for-like growth, growing operating profit for the quarter by 45%. 

Kingfisher-owned home improvement retailer joins thousands of individuals and organisations in pledge to cut carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. 

The British Retail Consortium reports a growth in consumer confidence reflected in a 2.8% growth in retail sales values on a like-for-like basis from September 2008. 

Home enhancement industry charity The Rainy Day Trust will be holding a party alongside Spring Fair International and the Totally Shows next February. 

After two years of construction, the new premises was officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal on September 18. 

Former BHETA diy and brushware director Andy Vaughan has announced a new business venture.