Leading European Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers - Company Benchmarking Analysis Report

Synopsis

This report contains a competitive company benchmarking analysis based on key financial and operating parameters and ratios of a select peer group of companies, compared to one another and to overall global averages for their retail channel. The analysis highlights the companies that are performing the best among the peer group, and in which areas, and therefore clarifies leading performance standards and the strengths and weaknesses of companies covered.

Summary

Canadean's 'Leading European Home Improvement and Gardening Supplies Retailers - Company Benchmarking Analysis Report' compares the strength of leading home improvement and gardening supply retailers in Europe relative to one another and the international averages for retailers in the same channel.

The benchmark analysis is based on key parameters and ratios that explain the performance of a particular company against that of its immediate peers and its overall channel of operation. As such, it provides an easy-to-use analysis which highlights the companies that are setting the benchmark performance in their channel of operation.

Scope

The report provides a peer group benchmarking analysis of leading home improvement and gardening supplies retailers in Europe. The peer group is selected from our Retailer Company Benchmark Database which covers the leading 1,000 global retailers. The peer groups covered includes leading public home improvement and gardening supplies retailers based in Europe.

The retailers covered in the report are:

• Bricorama SA
• Hornbach Holding AG
• Kingfisher Plc
• Mr Bricolage SA
• Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkermarkte Holding AG

Reasons To Buy

• Understand the relative competitive strengths and weaknesses of the players covered, both compared to each other, as well as for the average performance of retailers in this channel around the world.
• Detailed scorecards and summary heat charts provide clear, concise at a glance analysis of the relative performance of the companies covered across a range of metrics. While more detailed data provides the granular detail behind these concise analyses.
• Gain a detailed knowledge of the best in class performance levels amongst the retailers covered in order to benchmark both competitor performance as well as that of your own company.

Key Highlights

As might be expected, Kingfisher was the strongest performer of the leading home improvement and gardening supplies retailers in Europe, but it was not the strongest performer in all areas.

Hornbach was the top performer under the financial performance pillar. However, its performance in operational efficiency and financial performance was weaker than the channel average.

Praktiker's performance was weaker than the channel average under all the pillars. On an overall basis, the performance of all the peer group companies was either comparable or weaker than the channel average.

The European home improvement and gardening supplies retail market is dominated by geographically diversified store chains. The Western European markets, including the UK, Germany and France, are highly organized and growing slowly. In contrast, the Eastern European markets are still in their infancy and are expected to record strong growth rates in the coming years.