Focus DIY is the third largest DIY retailer in the UK with over 9,000 products available online at very competitive prices.Focus DIY offer an extensive range of DIY and gardening products, primarily to consumers seeking to undertake light home improvement and maintenance projects.

As at 31 October 2004, Focus DIY operated 256 stores, with a total of approximately 8.2 million square feet of net selling space (including 1.9 million square feet of outdoor selling space) and, on average, approximately 32,000 square feet of net selling space per store.

Focus DIY aim to be the store of choice and convenience for DIY and gardening products in each of the markets in which Focus DIY operate. Focus DIY offer a comprehensive range of own brand and branded products. Focus DIY's product ranges include decorative products (such as paint and wall coverings), core DIY products (such as tools and building materials), home enhancement products (including bathroom and kitchen units) and gardening and seasonal products (such as plants and lawnmowers). The size and scale of their operations allow Focus DIY to pursue a competitive pricing policy on their core product offering, which Focus DIY believe promotes strong customer loyalty.

Focus DIY stores are well-distributed nationally, with approximately 60% located in their target markets which consists of market towns (with populations of between 20,000 and 80,000) and edge-of-urban locations.

Focus DIY - Company History

Focus DIY were founded by Bill Archer, our Chairman, and a former business partner in 1987. Focus DIY have grown through a number of acquisitions, including acquisitions of Do It All Limited in 1998 and Great Mills in 2000. The new businesses were geographically complementary to their existing businesses, with minimal store overlap and a similar strategy of locating stores in market towns. Following these acquisitions, Focus DIY rebranded all of the stores to the Focus brand. In addition, in September 2000, Focus DIY acquired Wickes PLC, a business targeting trade customers. Since this acquisition Focus DIY converted 39 Focus stores located outside their target markets to Wickes stores to improve their profitability. On 11 February 2005, Wickes Limited was sold to Travis Perkins.

Just Moved House? (The Focus DIY Homemovers Advantage Card)

If you have just moved home or are about to, ask for an exclusive FREE Focus DIY Homemovers advantage card and get a 10% saving for six months when you shop in-store at FOCUS*.

It doesn't cost you a penny to take advantage. Simply fill in the application form on the back of one of Focus DIY's leaflets in-store and take it along with proof that either you've moved home sometime in the last six months or that you are just about to move.

A copy of any of the following documents is acceptable to Focus DIY: Conveyance, Solicitor's Bill, Estate Agent's Bill, Removal Bill, Rental Agreement or Rent Book. Hand it to us at the Information Desk and your Focus DIY Homemovers Advantage Card will be issued straight away.

The FOCUS Homemovers Advantage Card entitles the authorised signatory to a discount of 10% on all purchases*

*Excluding livestock, pet food, gift vouchers, goods from in-store concessions, or goods on the Internet, and such other products as FOCUS my specify from time to time.

The card cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount card or money off voucher or major discount promotion as specified. FOCUS reserve the right to change the conditions of use or withdraw the card without prior notice. The FOCUS Homemovers Advantage Card is valid for 6 months from the date of issue.