DIY`s Not Dead, Just Moving Online!

Released on = April 4, 2006, 6:57 am

Press Release Author = www.plumbworld.co.uk Ltd

Industry = Consumer Services

Press Release Summary = The death of DIY as reported in The Guardian Newspaper
(London) on 23rd March, may be restricted to the high street. For online retailers
like Plumbworld, things have never looked better.

Press Release Body = The death of DIY as reported in The Guardian 23rd March


may be a bit premature, as least for Plumbworld, one of the UK\'s leading online
Bathroom retailers.

The Guardian reported, under the headline DIY RIP:

"B&Q, the biggest DIY store in Europe with 322 stores across Britain, announced a
52% fall in UK profits. MFI is closing 11 stores and pulling out of the bathroom
market; Homebase and Wickes have also reported sales and profit declines; Focus has
had to renegotiate its banking covenants; Floors to Go last week announced an 18%
fall in underlying sales for 2005 and a halving of profits."

Far from signalling a move away from DIY, this trend might simply reflect the move
away from the High Street and the growth of online retailers like Plumbworld.

Unlike the main DIY chains, Plumbworld has shown very strong growth again this year
with sales up 36% to £8.7 Million. If anything the growth is getting faster, with
the company reporting it's first ever million pound sales month in March.

Plumbworld has been trading online since 1999 and is now the UK's largest
independent online retailer of bathroom and plumbing products.

In fact according to the third party web traffic monitor www.hitwise.co.uk ,
plumbworld is the UK's 8th largest online shop in the entire home and gardens
sector, ahead of household such names as MFI, Wickes, DFS and Laura Ashley.

James Hickman, Managing Director Said:
"The reason for our success is simple economics, it costs less to run a website and
central distribution centre than it does to rent 322 stores, pay salaries to 322
store managers, umpteen deputy managers and a sales force of thousands. These
reduced overheads translate into lower prices, and better value for consumers."

Despite the dot.com crash of the 90's major DIY retailers still have a lot to fear
from their, low overhead, rivals


Web Site = http://www.plumbworld.co.uk

Contact Details = James Hickman
2 Millenium Court, Enterprise Way
Evesham , WR11 1GS
$$country

01386768078
james@plumbworld.co.uk
http://www.plumbworld.co.uk

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