Like-for-like sales up 0.1% at department store chain, while gross margin is ahead of target. 

It is with great regret that Mykal has announced the death of its chairman, Mike Dent, who passed away peacefully on Wednesday January 6 at the age of 73. 

Topps Tiles co-founder and non-exec chairman Barry Bester will outline the company's performance over the first 14 weeks of the current financial year today. 

This is the verdict of the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, which showed a rise of 4.2% in UK retail sales throughout December, compared with 2008. 

POS designer and manufacturer PPE Group has been acquired by Swedish company HL Display for an undisclosed sum. 

According to reports in the national press over the weekend, B&Q is set to test a smaller store format across the UK. 

Lakeland is set to make its first foray overseas with a new store in Dubai. 

As retailers across the UK struggle to meet customer demand for snow-related products, the Liverpool-based DIY store manages to source 500 snow shovels. 

Department store chain exceeds £100m milestone in its first week of clearance. 

B&Q's own brand composts topped the tables in Which?'s research into the bet composts on the market, but Homebase came bottom of the leader board. 

E-commerce businesses end 2009 on a high with a 51% increase in sales over the festive period 

According to media reports Chris Dawson, founder of home and leisure retail chain The Range, is planning to open ten new stores this year, at a cost of around £15m. 

Retail theft rose by a third in 2009, as an incident occurred almost every minute. These are the findings of the British Retail Consortium's Retail Crime Survey 2009, published today. 

DIY Week wants to hear how the snow has affected your business. Two retailers we spoke to have had very different experiences, but with one thing in common... rock salt. 

In what was an incredibly tough year for many retailers, Home Hardware (Scotland) saw 2009 turnover increase by more than 14% making it the best ever year since trading began in 1983. 

Irish builders merchants and DIY retailer Grafton Group has seen a further stabilisation in its turnover according to a trading update released this morning for the year ended 31st December 2009. 

Festive figures fall below expectations, as consumers opt to shop for themselves in the sales rather than buy gifts. 

Arc International, which makes glass products under brands including Pyrex, Cristal D'Arques and Luminarc, has sold its Spanish plant to the management there. 

Barry Digby, the former advertisement manager and then publisher of DIY Superstore magazine, died on Monday January 4. He was 65. 

Department store chain reports 15.8% rise in sales over the festive period.