Following on from the success of the first Topps Tiles trade event at the Milton Keynes store last year, the flooring retailer is inviting tilers, builders and other trade professionals to attend its nationwide Topps Trade Roadshow at locations throughout the UK. 

The Midlands Co-operative is to close its loss-making chain of Fashion & Home department stores. 

The British Home Enhancement Trade Association has teamed up with a new service provider to offer help to members in all areas of packaging. 

Home Hardware says its Christmas 2012 promotion sales were up 19% over the previous year. 

Morrisons is boosting its online non-food offer by linking with the Lakeland chain for the launch of a new kitchenware website. 

The overall cost of retail crime soared by 15.6% last year to £1.6bn, but retailers' lack of confidence in police response saw dramatically fewer incidents being reported. 

Norwich-based Godfrey DIY has pulled the plug on its business, calling in liquidators just days after its managing director told diyweek.net of plans to secure its future. 

According to the Office for National Statistics, retail sales fell by 0.1% in terms of value and volume compared with November, but were up year-on-year. 

Beds manufacturer Silentnight is reportedly eying up bed retailer Dreams, which was put up for sale last month. 

Home Retail Group announced a raised profit forecast in its interim management statement this morning, but it was strong sales from Argos, not Homebase, which bolstered the home improvement giant's third quarter. 

Haskins is celebrating 40 years of trading, which has seen it go from a small family-run nursery to a garden centre shop at Tricketts Cross in Ferndown, to a £32m turnover business with four centres. 

The restaurant at Fairways Garden Centre in Ashbourne has won an award in the 2013 Derbyshire Food and Drink Awards. 

There are just a few spaces still available at the 2013 Garden Press Event - where garden suppliers and retailers get a one-on-one with some of the leading trade and consumer gardening press and media. 

Two more companies, both from the decorating sector, have joined the British Home Enhancement Association since the beginning of 2013. 

Only a fifth of Britons prefer to do their shopping via the internet, with the greater majority still favouring a real shop. 

The administrators of utility and civil engineering products supplier Burdens have sold five more of its depots. 

Manufacturing innovator John Elliott, MBE, who once took part in Channel 4's 'Secret Millionaire' series, will be speaking at the Garden Centre Assocation's annual conference this month. 

A number of garden centres - from multiples The Garden Centre Group and Dobbies to independents Wentworth and Webbs - recently played host to a nationwide Chevrolet promotion, giving up two car parking spaces and cashing in on the extra interest from customers. 

The owner of the kitchen price comparison website that has set DIY chains at loggerheads has now weighed in to the fight itself, answering criticisms that the site is misleading and biased towards B&Q. 

This year's Enjoy an Independent Easter campaign is urging retailers to get involved with a special Easter egg hunt to divert consumers away from out-of-town retail parks, major chains and online giants, to smaller, local independent businesses.