Growth
B&Q against its category
The biggest tracked UK home improvement center chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks B&Q's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
B
|
-2.0% |
| 2 |
W
|
+4.0% |
| 3 |
S
|
-4.3% |
| 4 |
T
|
+5.5% |
| 5 |
J
|
+3.7% |
| 6 |
B
|
- |
| 7 |
T
|
+3.2% |
| 8 | D Direct Doors | +0.7% |
| 9 |
E
|
+5.3% |
| 10 |
H
|
+5.6% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
318 tracked B&Q locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.
Tracked stores by region
- South East 44
- London 38
- North West 37
- South West 31
- East of England 29
- Scotland 29
- West Midlands 28
- East Midlands 26
- Yorkshire and The Humber 25
- Wales 16
- North East 9
- Northern Ireland 5
- Other 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at B&Q
Tracked chains B&Q customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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