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A B&Q store in Grimsby, England. By 2000, B&Q had 51 large warehouse shops; this had doubled by 2003. By May 2014, B&Q in the United Kingdom had 359 shops, and 20,887 employees; [40] and eight shops in Ireland. [41]
This deal eventually made Focus Group the UK's second largest home improvement retailer, behind B&Q. [9] 36 Focus stores were rebranded to Focus DIY, growing Wickes from 131 stores in October 2000 to 172 in March 2004. [10] In December 2004, Focus Group sold Wickes to Travis Perkins. [11] The sale was completed in February 2005. [12]
Home improvements retailer Kingfisher, home to the B&Q and Castorama brands, has launched what it says is the sector's first artificial intelligence-powered assistant to support customers with do ...
Screwfix Direct Limited, trading as Screwfix, is a retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products based in the United Kingdom. [6] Founded in 1979 as the Woodscrew Supply Company, the company was acquired in July 1999 by Kingfisher plc, which also owns B&Q, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Kingfisher currently operates over 1,300 stores in eight countries in Europe and in Turkey. Its main retail brands are B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix. [28] The companies now part of the Kingfisher group are: B&Q; operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland; Brico Dépôt; in France, Spain, Portugal and Romania; Castorama; in France ...
Quayle worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q retail chain in 1969 in Southampton. Their idea of large warehouse-style DIY stores copied the style already successfully operating in other European countries, but B&Q soon filled the gap in the British market to become the ...
B&Q Warehouse store, Grimsby. In the United Kingdom, hardware stores can be known as ironmongers, DIY stores and home improvement stores. British retail chains include B&Q, Homebase, and Wickes. Australian hardware chain Bunnings opened their first shop in St Albans in February 2017 and planned to convert several other Homebase shops into pilot ...
In 1969, Christian Dubois founded in Englos, near Lille, France's first large-scale (5000 m 2) DIY store. The rapid expansion of the chain meant that 20 years later Castorama had 80 stores in France. [3] A second store opened in 1972, followed by a third in 1973. In 1975, Castorama set up shop in Plaisir (Yvelines), outside its home region. [4]