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Blog entries
Kingfisher's first half at a glance (25/07/2012 11:09:58)
B&Q's like-for-like sales in UK and Ireland in the first 23 weeks of the current year were down 5.6% compared with the same period the previous year. On the face of it, that's a pretty unimpressive figure.
Half full or half empty? (12/03/2012 10:48:00)
Council tenants being offered free DIY courses at B&Q - and being given £400 vouchers to spend at B&Q as well. What's your take on that?
Totally DIY: which way now? (10/02/2012 18:18:48)
Good stuff first: the show was well planned, well dressed and well promoted. There was a strong spread of exhibitors, and plenty of worthwhile new products. And the visitor numbers were on a par with those achieved before the show left London in 2009.
Totally: Things picked up on Monday (07/02/2012 14:48:55)
Well, Monday's attendance at Totally DIY felt considerably better than Sunday.
Totally DIY day 1- it could have been worse (06/02/2012 09:49:15)
Talking to exhibitors during the first day of Totally DIY, the collective view seems to be: it could have been worse.
"DIY RIP"? Rubbish! (24/01/2012 09:38:10)
For a textbook example of 24-carat crap journalism, you wouldn't have to look much further than the item that appeared on the BBC website at 12.41pm on Monday January 23. Under the headline "Is it RIP for DIY?", a presenter named Steph McGovern told us that "over 600 DIY firms are exhibiting at the Interiors UK fair in Birmingham" and posed the question "Are DIY companies still making money?".
What's in a name? (23/08/2011 12:20:51)
It's just over two years since Wyevale Garden Centres announced it had decided to abandon the Wyevale name. Instead of trading under a single corporate identity, all the centres in the chain were to adopt - or revert to - local identities.
Why is losing lots of money "brilliant"? (27/06/2011 10:00:16)
"Quelle horreur. One of our last brilliant British retaliers [sic] Habitat has gone into administration. Part being bought by Homebase! OMG!" Thus tweets self-styled 'Queen of Shops' Mary Portas.
A numbers game (07/06/2011 10:01:10)
Journalists love numbers - especially big numbers. The fact that they are sometimes meaningless big numbers doesn't matter in the slightest.
Portas not quite so keen on Homebase these days (21/01/2011 10:28:55)
Retail 'guru' Mary Portas has hit the headlines again (remember her televised makeover of Lightwater Homecare?) with her pet retail hates. |
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