According to reports, Homebase is the latest retailer exposed as not passing on the VAT discount to its customers. 

RS Components, the tool and electrical components catalogue business, is proposing to cut full and part-time posts. 

BLP UK - the Doncaster based manufacturer of MDF wrapped profiles and membrane pressed cabinet doors - has gone into administration. 

The Baugur Group - the firm with stakes in Wyevale Garden centres and many popular high street names - has gone into administration. 

Turbine range withdrawn from sale after recent survey reveals they don't work as effectively as first thought. 

HobbyCraft has exchanged contracts on two more UK stores as the chain's expands to 41 outlets. 

All-In-One Garden Centre has bought four and a half acres of land from a neighbouring farm. 

The holding of the Baugur Group have been frozen by its bank following its board's decision to ask for credit protection. 

Garden products manufacturer MTD acquires German tool company for an undisclosed sum. 

Garden centre chain staff informed that customers are only to benefit from the cut if they complain. 

The DIY giant is consulting with staff to cut jobs in its head office, the Kingfisher-owned chain said today. 

Bents Garden & Home in Glazebury near Warrington has been named The Garden Centre Association of the Year for 2009. 

‘Tooltastic’ counter at the tool supplier’s Southampton branch is first of 15 to be rolled out across the UK. 

An Icelandic firm with interests in Wyevale Garden Centres and two leading UK department stores has asked for protection from creditors. 

Part of the struggling furniture business Sofa Workshop has been sold to one of the original founders of the business. 

B&Q reported sales of shovels were up 450% this week on the previous seven days as the country battled against snow and ice. 

DIY sales are taking a hammering as shoppers cut back on home improvement spending, analysis of Virgin Money Card data shows. 

Carpetright the carpet and floor coverings retailer has today published its Interim Management Statement for the 13 weeks to 31 January 2009.
 

Shop Direct, the owners of Littlewoods, has snapped up the Woolworths name with plans to trade online. 

Garden centre chain Hurrans is the latest retail victim of the economic downturn, as the five-strong group has gone into administration.