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DIY Week Awards 2024 winners announced!
After months of anticipation, the winners of the DIY Week Awards 2024 were revealed at a grand lunch event. The first award of the day was the Decorating Product of the Year, which was won by Avron - Dekton 2-In-1 Cartridge Cutting Tool. Following on from this was the Hand Tool of the Year, with DK Tools - Amtech Multi-Function Trim Puller taking the trophy.
Next up was the Garden Leisure Product of the Year, with
Uni-Powa Corp - Hydria 4-in-1 Water Feature taking the win. For the Retailer Support & Marketing Initiative Award, Home Hardware South-west were the ones to take home the trophy. The Garden Care Product of
the Year was won by Future Developments - Genie Plant & Tomato Feed Tablets and the Security Product of the Year was awarded to Burg-Wächter - Sold Secure Bicycle Security Solution Kit.
The Home & Kitchen Product
of the Year went to Avron - Breeze Rechargeable 4-In-1 Portable Fan, whilst STIGA - SC 100e Kit Cordless Pruning Shears won the Garden Tool Product of the Year. Next was the Power Tool of
the Year which Avron - Goodyear Rechargeable Wet & Dry Cordless Vac won, whilst Crown Paints - Enabling customers to make more sustainable choices was awarded the Sustainability Initiative of the Year award. Up next was Crown Paints -
This year’s DIY Week Award winners. Full report in the next issue
Crown Retail Quick Dry Eggshell Paint being crowned as the DIY Product of the Year.
Omnichannel Retailer of the
Year was awarded to Screwfix. The Editor’s Choice Award was given to Pelsis for their Insect-O-Cutor Prism Fly Killer. The Team of the Year went to Axminster Tools, whilst the Business Expansion Award
Growing with Gardena at Chelsea Flower Show
Leading gardening brand, Gardena, recently unveiled its interactive 2024 Chelsea Flower Show Garden at the event, which focused on growth and resilience, showcasing the importance of native planting, water harvesting and clever watering solutions. The garden was designed in collaboration with sustainability content creator and eco-designer, Lynne Lambourne for a third year.
Providing an interactive experience for at-tendees, the garden aims to educate and inspire people to re-think the plants they use, and how to care for them in a more sustainable and resilient way. Visitors to the world’s most famous five-day flower show were able to attend the Gardena stand and get hands-on with products, learn about the ways in which they can become more resilient in their gardening practices, and take home a piece of Chelsea by
planting their very own pumpkin seed.
The garden showcased a harmonious blend of nature and innovation. Central to its design
Wilko.com launches tool hire service – powered by easyToolhire
easyHire Technologies (trading as easyHire), a leading technology provider for the hire industry, has entered into an exciting new partnership with wilko, the household and garden retailer. Wilko customers can visit
www.wilkotoolhire.com, which is live now and gives customers the ability to hire everything they need for their jobs, whatever they are - gardening and
landscaping, cleaning, painting and decorating, drilling and breaking, sawing and cutting, and even mowing – whatever their scale and size. .
All consumers need to do is visit
wilkotoolhire.com and select the tools they require and the dates they need them for. The tools or equipment selected are then delivered to the home or site for use and collected once the job’s done.
easyHire is part of the easy family of brands and has the exclusive branding rights to easyToolhire in more than 30 countries.
The www.wilkotoolhire. com website is powered by easyToolhire, which is backed by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of easyJet. easyToolhire will fulfil all
www.wilkotoolhire.com tool and equipment hire orders, making every job – from quick
BHETA’S age verification campaign regarding bladed items leads to Royal Mail climb-down
A two-month campaign by BHETA on postal services’ age verification policies, reference the delivery of bladed items, has led to a climb-down by Royal Mail on its original proposal to cease such services. Such a move would potentially have financially crippled many UK housewares sellers of legitimate products such as kitchen knives, penknives and cutlery.
4 DIY WEEK MAY 2024 Royal Mail had originally
proposed the termination of its current low-cost age-verified service, which would have left smaller UK suppliers and retailers with no financially viable alternative means of delivering legitimate product safely to age- verified customers. Alternative delivery companies either charge prohibitive rates for age verification or impose minimum quantity criteria, which are too
high for smaller suppliers and retailers to use. BHETA was made aware of the disastrous possible impact for the UK home improvement and enhancement industries two months ago. It immediately communicated with Adrian Baker - UK Products Director Royal Mail and raised the issue in a meeting with the Minister for Policing and OFCOM at the Home Office, as well as providing members with
fixes to big renovations – easy and affordable. easyToolhire has an extensive network of depots across the UK and specialises in quality tool hire and equipment rental at a reasonable price and at the touch of a button.
wilko.com’s new tool
hire service – powered by easyToolhire – is a significant step forward in the equipment rental brand’s journey.
BHETA’s COO, Will Jones at the Home Office
philosophy was the promotion of biodiversity through the cultivation of plants that attract and sustain pollinators. Gardena also partnered with a group of like-minded suppliers to ensure that all elements of the garden were sustainably sourced. More about Gardena’s attendance at the show can be found online at: https://www.
gardena.com/uk/c/discover/ gardening/magazine/chelsea- flower-show-2024
was won by CMO Group. The Retailer of the year was awarded to GJ’s, with Big Red Shed placing Highly Commended. The last award of the day was the Industry Personality of the Year, which was awarded to Vijay Sahdev from Avron. For a full list of winners please visit the Awards website at:
https://diyweekawards.co.uk
Clothing &
catering style it out in GCA BoT April figures
the means to lobby their MPs on the subject.
Royal Mail has now backed down and pledged to continue its age-verified postal delivery service, along with a new policy that from 7th May, it will no longer handle any newly prohibited items, this placing clear distance between legitimate bladed products for household use and other items.
The Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) for April is out now and shows clothing and catering leading the way when compared to the same month last year. There was also a positive, 3.77%, year-to-date variance, but 10 of the 13 categories recorded were down when likened to April 2023 according to figures from the organisation’s member garden centres. Peter Burks, GCA CEO, explains: “As expected, with Easter having fallen in March this year, the April figures do not look very encouraging and definitely back-up the sentiments I heard on my visits to our members. “Our smaller centres did much better than the larger ones, actually managing to be up a little bit, but overall, the average was down by 5%. “However, it’s not all doom and gloom as anecdotal evidence from our members suggests May has already started off well, boosted by the much better weather. We’ve had one reasonably good Bank Holiday and hope the next one to come will be even nicer.” Excluding the miscellaneous section (+21.33%), the GCA’s top performing category in April 2024 was clothing, up +14.43%, when compared to the same month in 2023. This was followed by catering +13.05%.
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