<Mega retailers for building and construction.
US
Home Depot and Lowes are the major DIY retailers in the US together
they operate over 2,600 stores.
Home Depot operates 1,707 stores. 175 new stores opened in 2003.
http://ir.homedepot.com/index.cfm
Lowes has 950 stores in 45 states.
http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=frameSet&url=vocuspr.vocus.com/VocusPR30/DotNet/Newsroom/Query.aspx%253FSiteName=Lowes%2526Entity=PRAsset%2526PublishType=Company+Background%2526Title=Company+Overview%2526XSL=CompanyBackground%2526Cache=True
According to biz.yahoo, the US home improvement industry generated
$190 million in 2001. Sales are predicted to reach $200 billion by
2004.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/prof/25.html
According to Trendlines, Lowes and Home Depot have just under 25% of
the U.S. DIY market.
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:X28UjBJ58D4J:www.trendlines.com/Data/diy.pdf+diy+market++chains&hl=en
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Europe
In Europe there are 8,000 DIY superstores owned by the major chains.
http://www.irishscientist.ie/2002/contents.asp?contentxml=02p32_34.xml&contentxsl=is02pages.xsl
According to AMA research the EU DIY market has experienced steady
underlying growth from 1998-2001. France and the UK are considered
Europe?s most proactive DIY nations. The German market has been
stagnant with little sign of an upturn in the short term. Growth in
France, UK, Belgium and Netherland was 4-7% in 1998-2001.
http://www.amaresearch.co.uk/DIY_WestEuro02s.html
The DIY market was worth 168.1bn Euro in Europe?s leading 19 countries
in 2001. Mintel forecasts that DIY sales will increase by 24% for the
period 2001 to 2006. This report also gives figures for the share that
each major country has of the European market.
http://www.mrons.com/drno/news2072.htm
UK
The top 3 UK DIY retailers are
B&Q (owned by Kingfisher) - 337 stores
Focus-Wickes ? 270 stores
Homebase (Argos Retail Group) ? 300 stores.
This report also analyses why the UK DIY market is expanding.
http://www.bized.ac.uk/current/leisure/2003_4/290304.htm
Kingfisher is Europe?s number one DIY retailer with 549 stores in 7
countries including UK, France, Poland, China & Taiwan.
This report also contains details of the DIY market.
UK- B&Q ?324 stores
France ? Castorama ? 105 stores
Brico Depot ? 57 stores
http://www.kingfisher.com/files/english/downloads/pres_eurobond_03.pdf
B&Q expansion plans
http://www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk/bqaaaaaa.htm
Focus-Wickes
The company operates 270 Focus stores, 158 Wickes stores and one
Wickes Extra store. http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/page/corporate
Homebase ? 270 stores.
http://www.homebase.co.uk/aboutus/faq.html
Homebase
2000- 287
2001 - 283
2002 - 273
http://www.gusplc.com/gus/investors/reportsaccounts/interim03/homebase.pdf
Keynote forecasts growth of 4 percent every year to 2006 in the UK DIY market.
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/3872/
According to Mintel growth was 4.9% in 2002 in the UK DIY market.
Mintel predicts growth of 4.2% by 2006.
http://www.kingfisher.com/files/english/presentations/pres_120603/pres_120603.pdf
According to Euromonitor, the UK market for DIY products has grown by
1.7% since 2002 to reach $2.8 billion.
http://www.euromonitor.com/DIY_products_in_UK_(mmp
How UK planning regulations are hindering B&Q?s expansion plans.
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmodpm/114/114m09.htm
The Do-it-yourself market ? an analysis of the UK market.
http://www.buyusainfo.net/info.cfm?id=111966&keyx=CE6CA942F991F157145DE0A9FCD217DB&dbf=isa1&loadnav=no
Ireland
According to Global Information Inc. the four major DIY Chains in
Ireland are Woodie's (owned by Grafton), Atlantic Homecare (owned by
Heitons), Homebase (GUS plc) and B&Q (Kingfisher plc). The number of
stores has increased over the past two years. B&Q plan to open 10
stores by 2008.
http://www.the-infoshop.com/study/ah17475_home_improvement.html
France
According to a report by Igor Lepine, in 2002 there were 2,594 DIY
stores in France an increase of 1.89%. Superstore sales accounted for
65 % of total home improvement sales in 2002 ? growth of 6.5%.
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:8HUTXWKA-gsJ:www.seve.gr/documents/meletes_erevnes/Building%2520Products%2520FRANCE.doc+%22the+number+of+diy+stores%22&hl=en
According to Worldinformation.com the French DIY market was worth Euro
6.6 billion in 2001. The market is now mature and experienced growth
of 1.4% since 2000. http://worldofinformation.safeshopper.com/33/1343.htm?547
The top four retailers are Bricomarche, Leroy Merlin, Castorama (part
of the UK Kingfisher group) and Mr Bricolage (379 stores).
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:CJBHK1g19a0J:www.mr-bricolage.fr/groupe/analyse/ing_an_0505.pdf+diy+%22number+of+stores%22&hl=en
According to Mintel DIY market growth was 4.5% in 2002 and is
predicted to be 3.8% by 2006.
http://www.kingfisher.com/files/english/presentations/pres_120603/pres_120603.pdf
Mr Bricolage ?600 stores, 13.5% of the market, Turnover Euro 1.2 billion in 2002.
http://www.mr-bricolage.fr/groupe/
English version
http://www.mr-bricolage.fr/groupe/pres2003/profile_titre.jpg
Bricomarché ? 500 stores, 18 in Poland, 15 in Portugal
http://www.bricomarche.com/bricomarche/ounoustrouver/index.asp
Leroy Merlin ? 181 stores.
http://www.leroymerlin-group.com/html/en/chif.htm
French market growth.
http://www.kingfisher.com/files/english/presentations/pres_040902/pres_040902.pdf
Germany
According to Plaza.net. the top 10 DIY store chains in Germany are:
OBI (Franchise) ? 455
Praktiker, inlk, Top-Baumarkt and Extra ? 384
Bauhaus ? 178
Hornbach ? 90
Hagebaumarkt ?324
Toom ? 265
Marktkauft ? 143
Globus ? 53
Max Bahr ? 76
Bauklotz, Werkmarkt, Baufuchs (owned by Zeus) ? 227
Obi is the number one German DIY retailer with 336 stores in Germany
and 99 stores in Austria, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland,
Slovenia, Switzerland and China. This site gives a breakdown of the
number of stores in each country.
http://www.obi.de/international/international.html
Hornback-Baumarkt AG operates 96 DIY superstores across Europe. 77 are
in Germany, Austria (8), the Netherlands (6), Czech Republic (3),
Luxembourg (1), Switzerland (1). Five new stores were opened in the
first half of 2002/2003.
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:QRaSRz_uNNoJ:www.hornbach-holding.de/press/PR_1H_2002_en.pdf+%22diy+sector%22+stores&hl=en
Praktiker also has 51 stores outside of Germany: Poland (17), Hungary
(12), Greece (7), Turkey (6), and Austria (6).
http://search.ecplaza.net/bbs/read.asp?bid=2107&did=&myurl=&pg=1&mid=4464&ser=69&srccol=&srcstr=
Praktiker has 350 DIY stores in eight European countries including
Germany (346), Hungary, Romania (2), Greece and Turkey.
http://www.invgr.com/praktiker_bulgaria1.htm
According to Worldinformation.com the German DIY market decreased by 1.7% in 2002.
http://worldofinformation.safeshopper.com/77/1610.htm?547
Belgium and Netherlands
Brico (owned by Vendex KBB) ? 102 stores (62 are franchises) in the
Netherlands and Belgium. The company is market leader with 16.6% of
the market.
http://worldofinformation.safeshopper.com/33/1343.htm?547
Gamma ? 146 stores.
http://www.gamma.com/content/voorpagina.jsp
Gamma has 69 stores in Belgium
http://www.diyglobal.com/druck/die_aktuell_detail_druck_e.20031027092525580.asp
Hubo ? over 200 stores.
http://www.hubo.nl/
Hungary
BricoStore ? 4 stores
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/NAVO-4U62DM?OpenDocument&Site=default
Russia
Obi (German company) to open 14 stores in Russia
http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/isa/020930retailtrends.htm
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Asia.
Japan
The number of DIY stores in Japan in 2003 was 3860. This site has a
graph showing the growth since 1973.
http://www.diy.or.jp/profile/a_01b-e.htm
Japan
Kahma Co Ltd ? 101 stores
Daiko Ltd ? 99 stores
Doit ?24 stores
Khonan Shoji Inc.
Keiyo Ltd
Homac Corp ?349 stores
Shanghai B&Q ? 8 stores
http://www.diyna.com/news/
According to DIY City the Japanese DIY industry achieves sales of $32 billion.
http://www.diyna.com/news/event.html
According to DIY city, the Japanese market has grown 1.3 times that of 10 year ago.
http://www.diyna.com/news/
China
Chains include:
Homeway
Homemart
No9
Orient Homes
Obi (Germany)
B&Q (British company) ? currently 15 stores with plans to open 75
stores in 30 cities by the end of 2008.
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2122337
Leroy Merlin plans to open 20 plus stores in China.
http://www.tdctrade.com/mne/gift/houseware013.htm
According to Access Asia, the Chinese market has grown 106.4% since 1994.
http://www.chinaonline.com/estoreNew/construction/AA030-32_PR.htm
The Australian market
http://www.buyusainfo.net/info.cfm?id=76701&keyx=AE79820BC8E0F25995B3E747E92752B6&dbf=isa1&loadnav=no>
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