Home Retail Group was a top riser on the stock market today after media speculation suggested Asda parent Wal-Mart is eyeing the British retailer as a potential acquisition. 

EPE International was voted the 'best display stand' at Home Hardware's Spring Trade Show at Westpoint Exhibition Centre, Exeter on March 9. 

Department store's weekly sales up 30% on 2009, with its Never Knowingly Undersold campaign boosting sales in home categories. 

British houses are in the worst state of repair compared to the rest of Europe, with nearly every second home in need of renovation, according to research released last week by Bosch. 

Almost one in ten retail employees have committed a crime against their employer in the last 12 months, says new research from G4S Secure Solutions. 

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.