Home and Garden Specialist Retailers

Unlike many other retailers during the 2020 pandemic, home and gardening performed well, as with people confined to home, home improvement and gardening stores performed well, as consumers look to renovation work and gardening during the lockdowns.…

2021 was another good year for home and garden specialist retailers with the category largely benefitting from the pandemic. Since Norwegians have taken fewer holidays abroad and spent less on entertainment and socialising out of the house, this…

A need for advantage in terms of location is driving the expansion of several outlets within home and garden specialist retailers. The channel recorded a full recovery in value sales terms in 2021 following a low decline the previous year; while the…

Home and garden specialist retailers continued to actively develop their online platforms in 2021. One of the main online developments was the notable expansion of e-commerce marketplaces with regard to the range of DIY products on offer, with mobile…

After declining by almost a quarter in 2020, the retail current value sales of home and garden specialist retailers rebounded only marginally during 2021. The lockdown during the first half of 2020 led to the temporary closure of non-essential retail…

Home and garden specialist retailers particularly benefited from the pandemic-induced lockdowns in 2020 and 2021; despite the latter posting declines, value sales remained higher than pre-pandemic levels. As many state governments issued subsequent…

Home and garden specialist retailers experienced a strong value sales recovery in 2021, following a marginal dip the previous year, driven by homewares and home furnishing stores. While the channel was not subject to lockdown closures in 2020, stores…

While current value sales registered a double-digit increase in 2021, this growth was mainly due to soaring inflation and in fact in constant value terms, value sales actually fell significantly in 2021, as they also did in 2020. However, certain…

The emergence of the pandemic in Portugal posed major operational challenges for home and garden specialist retailers. While home improvement and gardening stores remained open during the quarantine, deemed to be an essential service, operators of…

Having declined significantly during 2020, the retail current value sales of home and garden specialist retailers rebounded in 2021 as economic conditions stabilised, in spite of the lockdown that forced garden specialist retail outlets located in…

The surge in COVID-19 cases and ensuing lockdown led to a decline for home and garden specialist retailers in 2021, as consumers cut back on their spending on home and garden products, seeing them as unnecessary products during a difficult time. Food…

Home and garden specialist retailers saw the continuation of the impact of pension fund withdrawals authorised at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. Chileans continued to invest those funds in making home repairs and upgrades, supported by…

Having plunged by a fifth during 2020 when they were forced to close for an extended period due to COVID-19 restrictions, the constant value sales (2021 prices) of home and garden specialist retailers rebounded very strongly in 2021 – exceeding their…

Having declined sharply in 2020, the retail current value sales of home and garden specialist retailers rebounded strongly during 2021 to exceed their 2019 peak. The national lockdown enforced from March-May 2020 required all non-essential stores,…

While home improvement specialist retailers were considered essential – and therefore allowed to remain open even during the most critical phases of quarantine – gardening specialists, homewares and home furnishing stores were not. A sudden search…

While in 2020, the current value growth of home and garden specialist retailers accelerated slightly, as the channel benefited from much more time spent at home, as sales of various products were brought forward, this also meant a subsequent slump in…

Home and garden specialist retailers continued to see changed consumer lifestyles during the COVID-19 crisis exert a positive influence on sales. Consumers continued to spend greater than normal amounts of time in their homes due to lockdown…

In constant value terms (2021 prices), the retail value sales of home and garden specialist retailers declined at a double-digit rate during 2020 and recovered only marginally in 2021, as the purchasing power of many local consumers was undermined by…

Home and garden specialist retailers registered another positive performance in 2021 and this was mainly due to the fact that huge numbers of Romanians continued to invest in improving and developing their homes. This trend began at the peak of the…

Home and garden specialist retailers saw a dramatic double-digit current value decline in retail current value sales in 2020. Due to COVID-19, most housing constructions encountered delays, the housing market dropped sharply, and consumers were…