Have you seen the famous Castorama beaver (le castor in French)? 🦫📽

Castorama France recently shared its latest advert, encouraging customers to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into their DIY projects to help improve their homes. Just like beavers do!

Watch below 👇

📢 Last week, B&Q released its latest insights report, ‘The Way We Live Now: 2024’, revealing the year’s top insights into how the relationship with our homes is changing.

Read the full report here 👇

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After first opening its doors in 1969, B&Q is celebrating its 55th anniversary 🎉

B&Q’s first ever employee, Avril de Klerk, joined Paul Haylock and his team at the Taunton store to celebrate this special milestone.

Congratulations to all of our B&Q colleagues! 🧡

This year we’ve continued to make progress at pace against our strategy and position ourselves for growth.

Find out more below 👇

This morning, we have released our Full Year Results for 2023/24. We have continued to deliver for our customers and driven our long-term strategy at pace, despite macroeconomic and consumer challenges in our markets.

Learn more and read the full results: shorturl.at/fFPW2

On Monday morning, we will be announcing our Full Year Results 2023/24.

Register below for the live webcast with our CEO Thierry Garnier and CFO Bernard Bot 👇

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During my visit to Newcastle, an interesting meeting with the teams from B&Q North Shields, a company in the Kingfisher plc group, one of the leading 🇬🇧 investors in 🇫🇷, its main market outside the UK.

We are very excited to announce the launch of Castorama e-commerce marketplace! 🛒

This is the latest milestone in the rapid development of our marketplaces across the Group, which are driving e-commerce sales by bringing customers more choice.

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Congratulations to Screwfix on the opening of its 900th store in Nottingham! 🎉

The store brings Screwfix's ultimate convenience even closer to tradespeople, who will also have access to the award-winning Screwfix Sprint service.

Find out more: shorturl.at/jotE2

Nearly 10 years ago Castorama Poland started Majsterkowo, DIY workshops for schoolchildren in our stores' local communities. The workshops take place in stores and are supervised by our expert colleagues.

Hear more from our colleague Michał Paździerski below 👇

Have you been putting off a DIY project at home? 🏠

B&Q’s latest advert uses the power of its brand to help show customers that ‘you can do it when you B&Q it’, with all the tools, products and services they need conveniently under one roof.

Watch B&Q’s new advert below👇

Did you know that green is trending? 💚

Last year we sold over 750,000 litres of green GoodHome interior paint, making it our fastest growing and most popular colour!

What’s your favourite paint colour at the moment?

Following a successful trial that began early last year, we are excited to announce that Brico Dépôt will be rolling out its special Pro service to all of its 123 stores! 🛠

Congratulations to all our Brico colleagues 👏

We are excited to announce the launch of almost 2,000 Verve hardy plants across B&Q, Castorama Poland & Brico Dépôt Romania🌺

Our new range has been carefully selected by our team of experts and will provide bursts of colour all year round to our customers’ outdoor spaces🌻

After reaching our previous learning target two years early, today we are announcing our new ambition for 20,000 colleagues to have completed an apprenticeship, traineeship or formal qualification by 2030 🎓

Find out more: shorturl.at/krW18

Last week our Chief Technology Officer Chris Blatchford joined a panel at Retail Week's Digital Summit to talk about how companies can use new technologies, like generative AI, to support their digital strategy.

Hear more from Chris talking about the vital role data plays👇

Wishing all those celebrating a very happy Lunar New Year!

新年快乐, 龙年大吉大利

Chúc Mừng Năm Mới! 🐉

As National Apprenticeship Week continues, Screwfix has launched ‘Trade Link’ – an online hub which supports tradespeople to recruit the next-generation of talent 🛠

Find out more here: shorturl.at/vKUX8

#nationalapprenticeshipweek #naw23

Sorry Italy, maybe next year 😬

Who will you be supporting in the Six Nations?

#sixnations #rugby #screwfix

Screwfix Ireland

Last week B&Q celebrated the opening of its 10th B&Q Local store in Staines! 🎉

B&Q Staines Local is a compact and convenient high-street format (4,000 sq. ft), offering customers B&Q’s wide range of home improvement products closer to home.

Congratulations to the team🙌