Category: Home Centers & Hardware Stores
Europe Home Centers & Hardware Stores
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Retailing in Hungary
... how to adapt quickly to sudden changes, such as new regulations on opening hours, lockdowns, and inventory management during stockpiling and panic-buying. These skills came in very useful for navigating their businesses through the further ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Norway
... less on entertainment and socialising out of the house, this meant they had more money to spend on renovating their homes. In addition, the increased time spent at home meant that Norwegians had greater interest ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Denmark
... and had more time to spend on DIY projects. In 2021, however, as life returned to more normal, consumers chose to spend their money on experiences, such as travelling, dining out and concerts, instead of ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Finland
... to projects. This surge in demand was especially noticeable in the first half of 2020 when consumers limited their movement more strictly during the first wave of the outbreak. In 2021, demand for products from ... Read More
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Retailing in Sweden
... more concentrated at home, with working from home, less travelling and less eating out, which resulted in increased demand for groceries, with some degree of stockpiling also seen. Even as the COVID-19 situation eased in ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Sweden
... despite a fall in the number of outlets. The pandemic led more people to work and socialise from home, which resulted in lives being concentrated more in the home environment. This benefited the development of ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Portugal
... deemed to be an essential service, operators of homewares and home furnishing stores were forced to close their doors, significantly impacting sales in 2020. Euromonitor International's Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Portugal report offers ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Ireland
... reported improving sales during the first half of 2021, partly as yearly comparisons were being made with the first lockdown period in 2020. Interest in home furnishings reached unprecedented levels since the emergence of the ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Italy
... crisis, consumers in Italy had much more time at home due to the strict national lockdown periods in the country. This fostered a greater interest in home and garden products as consumers had more time ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in the Netherlands
... increased spending on new décor, kitchens and bathrooms, which helped drive value sales in both home improvement and gardening stores and homewares and home furnishing stores. The increase in property transactions was being driven by ... Read More
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Retailing in the Netherlands
... well during the pandemic, in both 2020 and 2021. Many Dutch consumers who were either able to continue working from home or had their salaries covered by government assistance programmes had excess disposable income, given ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Romania
... improving and developing their homes. This trend began at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020, when the strict approach taken to home seclusion and social distancing meant that consumers had very good reasons ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Greece
... first half of 2020 led to the temporary closure of non-essential retail outlets, while many consumers were reluctant to return to in-person shopping due to a fear of contagion even after they re-opened. COVID-19 also ... Read More
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Retailing in Austria
... destinations), which led to reduced spending in non-essential retailing categories. Nevertheless, home seclusion measures were less drastic and non-essential outlets closures were shorter when compared with 2020 allowing consumers to make use of opportunities to ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Austria
... However, even as restrictions were eased, some consumers remained wary of spending money on non-essential items due to increasing price sensitivity and uncertainty over the immediate future. This resulted in postponed plans on major construction ... Read More
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Retailing in Belgium
... the year due to the relatively low penetration of e-commerce in total retailing compared with neighbouring countries; increasing consumer confidence with shopping online; and strong infrastructure improvements (online shops’ designs, payment methods, delivery policies... Euromonitor ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in France
... better. The French population, who in recent years had already been becoming increasingly interested in DIY and gardening, had more time and disposable income to undertake home improvement projects in 2021 that would make their ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Belgium
... by the growth of e-commerce. Many Belgian consumers used the time of lockdown to complete home improvements and also spent more time in their gardens and outside spaces, plus home improvement and gardening stores were ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in Spain
... enforced from March-May 2020 required all non-essential stores, including home and garden specialist retailers, to close for an extended period. Later, sales picked up again in June, but this was not enough to compensate for ... Read More
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E-Commerce (Goods) in the United Kingdom
... March, only essential retailers were allowed to operate, including grocery retailers and those selling health care products, such as chemists/pharmacies and drugstores/parapharmacies. As a result, demand for online purchases across all product categories remained significantly ... Read More
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Home and Garden Specialist Retailers in the United Kingdom
... to revamping of homes to address the tedium, despite notable sales declines. In 2021, value sales for this channel struggled to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels, but it did experience a strong rebound from the ... Read More
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Germany Resilient Flooring Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2022 - 2027)
... is expected to register a CAGR of greater than 10% during the forecast period, 2021-2026. Due to COVID-19, the industry is experiencing a strong slowdown in the economy, which restricted the construction of housing and ... Read More