Squire's Garden Centre staff member Lynn Street recently took part in a charity fire walk in West Byfleet to raise money for the Woking and Sam Beare Hospices. 

Founded in 1843, the home improvement industry's own charity, Rainy Day Trust, celebrates its 173rd anniversary today, March 24. 

Fashion, home and garden retailer Next posted its annual results today, revealing overall sales up 3.7% and pre-tax profits up 5% to £821m. 

The relative affordability of garden buildings as a way of adding to accommodation is just one of the factors that helped grow the market by around 3.5% last year. 

Rowlinson Garden Products has been appointed by ShelterLogic as its UK distributor of the ShelterLogic lawn and garden range. 

On the day that B&Q employees are being asked to put their names to new terms of employment or face the sack, a petition urging a management rethink is gaining thousands of signatures. 

With Easter starting early this year, Fiskars has released its fifth multi-media Spring campaign just ahead of the bank holiday weekend. 

B&Q's parent company Kingfisher has released its annual results for the year ending January 31, 2016, with total sales up 3.8% for its entire operation despite a 20.5% fall in statutory pre-tax profits to £512m. 

A garden centre company secretary who was "trusted implicitly" is facing a stretch behind bars after she stole almost £166,000 from the business. 

Baby Bio has signed a one-year sponsorship deal with Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust to support the charity's new Summer of Open Gardens fundraising initiative. 

Green-fingered employees at Squire's Garden Centres recently held a 24-hour "Plant-athon" on March 17 and 18, raising over £4,000 for the charity Greenfingers. 

More than 300 Argos stores could be in danger of closing should Sainsbury's £1.4bn bid for the retailer go through, according to reports. 

Screwfix was recently awarded Employer of the Year and Multi-channel Retailer of the Year at the Retail Week awards. 

Dulux parent AkzoNobel has launched the UK's first academy for industry professionals, including architects, painters and decorators, with an official opening by Minister of State for Employment Priti Patel. 

Waitrose is aiming to build on its growing share of the horticultural market by launching its first customer magazine dedicated entirely to gardening. 

Two leading industry trade associations - BHETA and GIMA - are jointly organising a Meet the Buyer day with Wyevale Garden Centres to be held on May 11. 

Mica chief executive Michael Ball has described as "very sad" the news of the closure this month of a long-established hardware independent in Rathfriland, Newry. 

Members of Home Hardware (Scotland) benefited recently from a training day on EPOS. 

Devon-based retail chain Axminster Tools & Machinery has been listed in the top 350 e-commerce and cross-channel retailers in the Internet Retailing UK (IRUK) Top 500 report 2016. 

The Sherwin-Williams paint company has agreed to purchase rival American paint supplier Valspar in a cash deal valued at around $9.3bn.