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© 2022 Datateam Business Media Ltd. DIY Week incorporates Decor Retailing, DIY Retail Leaders, DIY Superstore, Do-It-Yourself Retailing, Domestic Electrical Appliances, Excellence In Garden Retailing, Excellence In Woodcare Retailing, Excellence In Timber Retailing, Excellence In Tile Retailing, Garden Retail Leaders, Garden Retailing, Hardware Merchandiser, Hardware Trade Journal, Homecentre, Home Storage Retailing, The Ironmonger, Ironmongery & Hardware, Lighting, Martineau & Smith’s Monthly Circular, Mercantile Guardian, Superstore Management, Tools Retailing, and Wholesale Leaders. No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means without prior written permission from the publishers. Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of material published in DIY Week. However, Datateam Business Media Ltd will not be liable for any inaccuracies. The views expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the editor or publishers. DIY Week is registered at Stationers’ Hall. ISSN 0954-8823. DIY Week is printed on environmentally friendly paper; both text paper and cover stock are elementary chlorine free and sourced from paper suppliers with a well planned environmental policy. This issue of DIY Week includes some editorial photographs provided and paid for by suppliers. Printed by Buxton Press.
Navigating the road ahead The votes are in!
The last few weeks have been pretty hectic in the DIY Week office as we’ve been busy organising this year’s DIY Week Awards. I’m pleased to say that despite the challenges posed by Covid for the last couple of years, the Awards have been very well supported and we have received plenty of high quality entries in all the categories. This makes it very hard to narrow them down to a manageable shortlist, let alone choose the overall winners. Luckily we have a panel of independent expert judges who have spent a long time examining the entries and deliberating which deserve to receive the DIY Week Award accolades. We held two intense, but enjoyable judging sessions for the supplier and retailer categories earlier this month and after much discussion, the shortlists have been chosen. The judges all remarked on the high quality and wide variety of the entries we received, which really goes to show how healthy and innovative the DIY and garden industry sector is. I’m grateful to all the companies who have taken the time to enter this year’s awards and wish them all the best of luck. I’d also like to thank our judges who have invested so much of their valuable time in helping to determine the shortlisted entries and decide the overall winners. You can find out which products and companies are now in with a shout of winning a coveted DIY Week Award on page 20 of this issue. To learn more about the awards and to book your place at the event at the Tower Hotel in London on 20th May, visit the event website at
www.diyweekawards.co.uk.
As we emerge from what until now was the worst global humanitarian crisis of this century so far, things are certainly looking bright for the DIY industry in a post-Covid pandemic world. Not only did it adapt quickly to the initial shock shutdown of the economy, but it also fared well through the subsequent lockdowns. So, in general 2021 was not all doom and gloom for the retail sector and DIY, home improvements and gardening all stood out as over achieving segments during what was a very challenging time for all businesses. Looking ahead, Springboard, a leading provider of retail data analytics, has identified a number of key trends that it forecasts will play out in 2022. Most significant is the maturity of the hybrid
office/home working model which it thinks will result in a greater number of retail visits in the evening and at the weekend, longer dwell times and an increase in the combination of shopping and dining as the prospect of going out after a work day at home is more attractive. Alternatively, this model will in itself generate a demand by consumers for the choice that can only be obtained in a larger destination when more time allows. The report also highlights that while 2020 was typified by unprecedented change in retail brought about by the pandemic, and 2021 saw the start of retailers accommodating this change, 2022 will be typified by the transition of retail to succeed in a Covid world as we learn to live with the virus. You can read more about the ups and downs of the retail sector through the difficulties posed by the Covid situation last year and how the future may pan out in the Springboard Retail Report summary starting on page 20 of this issue.
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P25 GARDEN & WOODCAREP20 / RETAIL REPORT 2021
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