UK: Home category data, The consumer - Lightside DIY 2025
Summary
The UK: Home Category Data, The Consumer - Lightside DIY report offers a comprehensive insight into consumer attitudes in the UK Lightside DIY market. The report focuses on overall Lightside DIY products and its eight sub-categories: Jointing, Fillers, Fixings, Adhesives, Tapes, Maintenance chemicals, Switches & sockets, and Electrical accessories. Consumer data is based on our 2025 UK Lightside DIY survey, using a panel of 2,000 nationally representative consumers.
Key Highlights
- B&Q holds the highest conversion rate in the overall lightside DIY market followed by Amazon
- 75.6% of respondents cited price as the reason for their purchase of lightside DIY
- 70.7% of lightside DIY consumers undertook some research before buying
- 38.5% of UK consumers have purchased lightside DIY products in the last 12 months, with the highest purchasing penetration among 25-34 year-olds. B&Q is the most popular retailer for lightside DIY, followed by Amazon and Screwfix.
- Identify the demographic profile of shoppers within each subcategory, allowing you to better target ranges
- Understand how drivers of purchase, such as range, price and quality, vary in importance among different demographics in order to maximise sales potential among target audiences
- Discover how channel usage for researching and purchasing is changing, to help target investment into growing areas
- Consumer penetration by subcategory
- Drivers of purchase
- Retailer use
- Retailer profiles
- Retailer drivers
- Retailer improvements
- Channel use
- Research prior to purchase
- Category-specific questions
- Methodology and contacts
- List of Tables
- Consumer Penetration by Product, 2025
- Purchase Motivations, 2025
- Retailer Conversion Rates, 2025
- Retailer Purchased From By Subcategory, 2025
- Retailer Usage by Demographic, 2025
- Drivers of Retailer Choice by Retailer, 2025
- Retailer Improvem
- List of Figures
- Consumer Penetration, 2025
- Consumer Penetration by Subcategory, 2025
- Purchase Motivations, 2025
- Retailers Visited & Purchased from, 2025
- Retailer Profile - B&Q, 2025
- Retailer Profile - Amazon, 2025
- Retailer Profile - Screwfix, 2025
- Retaile
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