Price Inflation is Predicted in the UK DIY Market between 2005 and 2009.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c27243) has announced the addition of DIY DIY abbr. do-it-yourself DIY or d.i.y. Brit, Austral & NZ do-it-yourself DIY abbr DIY do it yourself a DIY shop/job. and Home Improvements Industry Market Review 2005 to their offering. The UK retail market for DIY tools and materials grew by 5.2% in 2004, to a value of GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 10.74bn. This report focuses on five major product sectors, which together accounted for around a quarter of the market's value in 2004. These sectors are: paint and woodcare, wallcoverings, ceramic tiles, power tools and accessories, and hand tools and decorating tools. Garden products and furniture are excluded, as are the housewares and soft furnishings sold by some DIY stores. Products that showed growth between 2000 and 2004 included garden woodcare, coloured emulsion paints, cordless tools and upmarket up·mar·ket adj. Appealing to or designed for high-income consumers; upscale: "He turned up in well-cut clothes . . . and upmarket felt hats" New Yorker. textured wallcoverings. The low cost of imported tools, the strong competitive pressure among retailers and the buying power Buying Power The money an investor has available to buy securities. In a margin account, the buying power is the total cash held in the brokerage account plus maximum margin available. Also referred to as "Excess Equity. of the major multiples combined to prevent price rises in the DIY market over the review period. Overall inflation was zero in 2004 and close to zero for the period from 2000 to 2004. Market drivers have included the high level of home ownership, low interest rates (which have encouraged spending rather than saving), the boom in house prices (which has boosted the housing market and enabled established homeowners to withdraw equity for home improvements), rising household disposable income disposable income Portion of an individual's income over which the recipient has complete discretion. To assess disposable income, it is necessary to determine total income, including not only wages and salaries, interest and dividend payments, and business profits, but also and high levels of employment. In addition, a strong interest in the home has been encouraged by home and garden `makeover' programmes on television. The dominance of the big DIY superstores has continued. However, in a reversal of the trend towards consolidation that has prevailed over the past decade, the Focus and Wickes chains separated in 2004. Trading reports for the first few months of 2005 suggested a decline in the DIY market, and the results of our own survey on the use of DIY retailers tend to confirm a lower footfall. Some of this decline appears to be due to the cool spring, early Easter and weaker consumer confidence at the beginning of the year. It is forecast that the market's growth will remain positive for 2005 as a whole, although it will be lower than that seen in the previous 5 years. Although the pressure on DIY prices will not disappear, raw-material prices are rising and background inflation is increasing the costs for distributors. Therefore, it is predicted that there will be some price inflation in the DIY market between 2005 and 2009. Companies mentioned: - B&Q PLC - Homebase Ltd - Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd - Wickes - Focus (DIY) - Screwfix Direct Ltd - Topps Tiles PLC - Robert Dyas Holdings Ltd - Glyn Webb Ltd - ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. Paints - Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings Ltd - Kalon Ltd - Ronseal Ltd - CWV CWV Catholic War Veterans CWV Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. CWV Columnar Water Vapor CWV Current Working View CWV Common Web Vulnerabilities CWV Constant Weight Vector Ltd - Graham & Brown Ltd - H-A Interiors Ltd - Walker Greenbank PLC - Fine Decor Wallcoverings Ltd - SJ Dixon & Son Ltd - Coleman Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) Wholesale Wallpapers Ltd - H&R Johnson Tiles Ltd - Pilkington's Tiles Group PLC - British Ceramic Tile (BCT BCT Brigade Combat Team BCT Basic Combat Training BCT Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology (EPA) BCT Business Cards Tomorrow BCT Banque Centrale de Tunisie (Central Bank of Tunisia) Ltd) - CP Group - Black & Decker - Robert Bosch Ltd - Alba PLC - Makita (UK) Ltd - Earlex Ltd - Stanley Tools - Spear & Jackson PLC - LG Harris & Co Ltd - Hamilton Acorn Ltd - Halls Beeline bee·line n. A direct, straight course. intr.v. bee·lined, bee·lin·ing, bee·lines To move swiftly in a direct, straight course. Group For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c27243 |
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