DIY chain becomes first UK retailer to offer nationally recognised Home Improvement Qualification. 

The management team of Crown Paints has today completed its buyout of the business from parent company Akzo Nobel. 

City broker Investec has cut its pre-tax forecasts for B&Q parent Kingfisher by 2% for the current year, and by 9% for the next. 

Ikea has recalled a chest of drawers after a design fault left a user injured. 

Decco Ipswich open day, which will take place on Wednesday October 8, has secured more than 50 exhibitors. 

Supermarket chain's interim results reveal sales and profit rise in the face of credit crunch. 

Argos has announced it has begun the search for thousands of extra staff to man its 700-plus branches over the Christmas period. 

Joy, the high street fashion and homewares chain which is parent company of the Hob cookshop and food stores, is the latest casualty of the economic downturn. 

It has been announced that the Indian parent company of home textile and soft furnishings retailer Rosebys, has bought the brand name after the chain entered administration on Friday. 

Sadie Chalkley, managing director of Tenbury Wells hardware and housewares retailer J G Banfield will assume the BHF Group chain of office in 2009. In doing so she will become the first woman to lead the trade association. 

World's largest paint manufacturer also plans to defer share buyback programme. 

Fireside accessories company rewarded for innovation and 'high standard' on stand at Autumn Trade Show. 

Association aims to help answer questions about economic downturn and believes retailers and suppliers alike have 'good times' ahead. 

Hardware and diy retailers throughout the UK are being encouraged to support the Rainy Day Trust's latest fund-raising initiative: collecting tins. 

Dutch-born Smit rewarded for considerable contribution to world-class horticulture via his transformation of the Lost Gardens of Heligan into one of the most visited gardens in the UK, and creating a cradle of life at the Eden Project. 

Planning permission granted for a new 'World of Plants' at Hayes Garden Centre in Ambleside, in the Lake District National Park. 

'Significantly' escalating costs from suppliers, and weather-hit peat harvest forces producer of commercial horticulture and branded garden products to seek alternative suppliers. 

Central Statistics Office figures show the economy has technically entered recession. 

Plant wholesaler and aggregates supplier rewarded for consistency of supply, merchandising and customer service. 

Award-winning Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert has been confirmed as the guest compere at the 2008 Britain's Best Retailer Awards dinner in Manchester on Tuesday November 18.