Lifestyle Garden Centre Toolkit

IKEA, MUJI , ILVA - Are you the Garden Center Equivalent?

Is it evolution or is it a revolution?  Whatever your opinion, lifestyle retailing is definitely changing and the garden center scene will be very much part of the changing movement.

A few years ago it was the DIY stores that were looked on as the innovators, but press releases in recent times indicate clearly that the DIY movement is finding it difficult to grow the market and consumers has turned to the DIM movement and the innovators have changed.

Spain - A Retail Explosion of ideas, but a garden retail sector with opportunities

This was my first visit to Spain for a number of years. It is difficult to critique an industry fully on one visit; the following notes are therefore observations rather than a critique.

I spent my time in Barcelona and around Catalynya. This is a high population density area, most urban people living in apartments with balconies.