Products

Three new primers for Arexons’ Ferox Primer line

Three new primers from Arexons' Ferox Primer Line to further expand the possibilities for specific interventions on all types of materials.

Trends

Euro Plant Tray for reusing plant trays

From 2024, the Euro Plant Tray will be available for supply to garden centers and DIY stores. Interview with Dirk Bansemer, managing director of EPT GmbH, to find out about this new project that thinks big.

Retail

Action, in Frosinone the first store of 2024

The Dutch brand kicks off the new year by opening a new store in Lazio on January 5. The store is run by a staff of 20 new employees.

Retail

Evoluzione Brico, a new store in Mazara del Vallo

The consortium, with associate La Fenice s.r.l., opened a new store in Mazara del Vallo, in the province of Trapani, on Dec. 22 under the Bricolarge sign.

Production

Arexons silver medal of sustainability from Ecovadis

Sustainability is acting responsibly, integrating social and environmental aspects into business operations, without limiting ourselves to regulatory compliance.

Retail

MADE Group, 2023 results and best wishes

There was some apprehension about the 2023 results from those in the construction industry, especially when compared to those in the 2021/2022 biennium. For Made Group, on the other hand, business results went well beyond expectations.

Trends

Silvia Spillere: “Variety, an asset for any organization.”

From Lombardy, from the last interview, to Veneto where we move to meet another female protagonist of the Home Improvement world: Silvia Spillere.

Production

Lavor invests and expands logistics

Expanded the headquarters in Pegognaga (MN) with the construction of a new shed housing the shipping department. For increasingly efficient logistics.

Production

CONAI honors home improvement companies

The 10th edition of CONAI's Call for Ecodesign awarded 219 packages out of a total of 373 submitted by 107 companies. Also some Home Improvement companies.

Production

75th anniversary for fischer group

From small workshop to world market leader in fastening technology. This is the development of a successful family business established in Germany in 1948.

Production

FITT opens a new plant in the U.S.

FITT's American dream, which began in 2017, is being transformed into a full-fledged industrial plan that will lead to the construction of a manufacturing plant in Anderson, Indiana.

Production

Sources, Osama: “future range expansion for home improvement”

Several important steps have marked the growth of a company that began as a distributor of writing supplies and is now structured in three different divisions: Writing, Living and Promoting.

Production

Romei, Zippo: “‘Glasses? An ‘opportunity for the physical store”

"The positive trend of last year continues and we continue to grow in double digits," Romei, Sole Director of Zippo Italia, said, "in June growth at 18 percent.

Production

Fervi, stable revenues and declining debt

As of the end of the third quarter of 2023, the Fervi Group, listed on the Euronext Growth Milan market, reports preliminary consolidated net revenues of approximately €41.7 million, in line with the figure as of September 30, 2022.

Editorials

TEN-DIYandGarden is now doubling up and going international

Now three years old, TEN-DIYandGarden, the web magazine devoted to the Italian DIY, gardening and home improvement market, is now doubling up and going international. The web magazine about Italy’s DIY and gardening markets

Retail

Dr Brico, a new DIY centre (with Evoluzione Brico)

The opening of a new DIY centre named Dr Brico is scheduled for the 19th December of this year.

Retail

Pietro Migliori leaves Bricocenter

Hot off the press is the news published by Distribuzione Moderna, concerning the appointment of Pietro Migliori as the new General Manager of Risparmio Casa.

Retail

DIY superstores: the Competitive Data analysis of financial statements

Competitive Data has carried out, as it does every year, an analysis of the financial statements of the top 172 DIY retailers.

Retail

Raffaele SpA. A host of new developments in 2019, starting with Pronto Hobby

This year is set to bring some major changes for the Raffaele SpA group, starting with its DIY division.

Retail

Bricoman Italia sentence – a major milestone for DIY superstores

The retailer won an important appeal to the Italian Council of State on authorization to install racks in the forecourts outside its stores.

Products

Serre Verdemax: custom protection for gardens

Whatever space is available there are many custom solutions for taking care of the garden. The array of Verdemax greenhouses is vast enough to provide an optimal solution for any plant or vegetable garden.

Production

WD-40 relocates to Italy

WD-40, a major American multi-national has chosen Italy as the new production source for the European market.

Retail

And Bricofer buys Bricorama – in Spain

The news published in Ferreteria y Actualidad about the sale of Bricorama stores in Spain (we had already talked about this) to the Bricofer group.

Retail

Bricoman to open in Venegono (Varese)

Having passed up the opportunity to open in Ponte Vedano, the retail chain belonging to Adeo secured, on December 10th last year, the possibility of setting up a new outlet in Venegono Inferiore, near Varese, Italy.

Retail

Brico io, the home center in the city

"The ideal store with the right division between technical and decorative area" this is the incipit of Paolo Roghi, responsible for the merchandising of Bricoio, during the visit of TEN in Palmanova street, in Milan.

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Trends

Deloitte, 11 DIY retailers in the Top 250

Global Powers of Retailing, produced by Deloitte, is an annual publication that identifies the world’s 250 largest retailers on the basis of publicly available data. The latest edition, the 22nd, refers to the fiscal year 2017, and the analysis of the various retailers’ performances takes into...

Retail

BricoBravo to protect purchases with Bravo Safe

A new service for BricoBravo customers. The new service is Bravo Safe, providing insurance to protect purchases against accidental damage, in addition to extending product warranties. Developed in collaboration with Allianz, the service, available in the section “Insurance” on the website,...

Production

FITT, research financing from the Ministry of Economic Development

With the project “New generation ‘100% Made in Italy’ of functional products for the transportation of fluids in EU and non-EU Garden, Building and Industrial sectors”, FITT has received 10 million euros funding from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. The financing is part of...

Production

2019, STIHL breaks into the gardening sector

The STIHL Group, from January 2019, is offering the market a complete range of gardening products, exclusively under the STIHL brand. The new STIHL gardening products are already on sale, and they range from shredders to motor-hoes, lawn aerators and garden tractors.

Retail

Ottimax: closing in Afragola, but opening in Catania in June

The date has now been confirmed. The store will close its doors for the last time on 28 February 2019; this is yet another closure for a site that, over the years, has also seen other operators come and go: first Castorama and then Leroy Merlin.

Trends

Coop 2018 report. Italians have their homes on their minds (furnishing, DIY and gardens)

Coop 2018 report, forecasts from Nomisma suggest that real estate sales in Italy should total nearly 566,000 this year (a 4.3% increase on 2017), and rise to around 595,000 in 2019.

Products

SQUALO 140 high pressure washer from Lavor

The cooperation with Vincenzo Nibali, the 2018 testimonial of LAVOR and of the “Un Giorno da Campione” contest, culminated in an absolutely unique and innovative product.

Products

Claber Rotoroll Evolution, the automatic hose reel

The Rotoroll automatic hose reel stays attached to the wall and when it is being used it unwinds and winds back up automatically as needed.

Retail

Animali che Passione, the new brand for Gruppo Selex

A new brand for the third largest Italian group in the modern retail industry joining the pet store world. “Animali che Passione”  is the result of market studies and analyses of some Selex partners.

Production

BTicino top among the best companies to work for in Italy in 2018

For the second time. Again this year, BTicino – the leading brand of the Legrand group in Italy and specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructure – was the best company to work for in Italy.

Retail

Diemme Ferramenta, no e-commerce and no promo. Only quality

We are in Milan, in Via Solari, and here we meet Domenico Di Marando, owner of Diemme Ferramenta. We want to get a closer look at a bustling business located in the beating heart of the city.

Retail

Leroy Merlin showroom in Abruzzo

After the first tests in Corsico (near Milan) and Lissone, the brand expands from Lombardy to Abruzzo, with the new opening scheduled for December 8 in Chieti.