Home and Garden Specialist Retailers

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…

Consumers, realising that they would be spending extended time at home and wanting to make their environment more comfortable, brought forward smaller home renovations and improvements that they could implement themselves. This kept some consumers…

In 2021, home and garden specialist retailers registered a strong increase in retail value sales after a strong decline in the previous year. During the first year of the pandemic, consumers postponed large scale home development projects or buying a…

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…

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.…

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 performed better than many other non-grocery channels despite also being impacted by the government’s COVID-19 restrictions. During the lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 many people took the opportunity to spend more…