Continuing growth of retail area

The 30 biggest German garden centre companies in July 2004 had a total of 2 110 outlets in operation at home and abroad, or 85 more than one year previously and amounting to growth of 4.2 per cent.
This overview does not include Sagaflor or Egesa-Zookauf, since no complete retail space information is available for either of them. The companies that are included here are garden centres and DIY stores, cooperatives and franchise groups.
Since last year the top 30 German companies have been able to extend their retail area by a total of 160 215 m² (3.95 per cent), a figure which results from growth of 177 504 m² and the withdrawal of 17 289 m². This means that the growth of retail area in the period under consideration achieved only 61 per cent of the preceding year’s figure. The increase in that year came to more than 80 per cent.
The Top 30 German garden centre operators with stores at home and abroad(download .pdf-files)
Development of the German garden market(download .pdf-files)
Garden centres operated by German companies abroad(download .pdf-files)
Growth of organised garden centre outlets(download .pdf-files)
The league table for the growth of stores was headed by Obi and Bauhaus with ten new outlets each, followed by Hagebau (9), Baywa (8), Praktiker (7), Hornbach (6) and Globus (5). Four outlets more than last year were clocked up by Zeus, EMV-Profi, Hellweg, Max Bahr and Krämer/Wir Gärtner.
With regard to the growth of floorspace, Obi and Hornbach lead the field with an increase of 30 000 m² each. Which translates into growth of 3.8 per cent for Obi and as much as 11.0 per cent for Hornbach. For second-placed Bauhaus, retail area increased by 22 000 m² (+8.3 per cent), while Dehner occupied third place (12 000 m², +2.7 per cent) and Hagebau fourth (11 071 m², +3.9 per cent). Fifth place goes to Pflanzen-Kölle (9 200 m²) and sixth spot is shared by Marktkauf/Dixi and Kärmer/Wir Gärtner with growth of 8 000 m² each.
Among the Top 10, Hornbach and Bauhaus achieved the greatest percentage increase in floorspace over the previous year. As a consequence, Hornbach has ousted Hagebau from third place and Bauhaus is now number five ahead of Rewe (Klee/Toom/Zack).
There was no change for Blumen Risse, Hamburg-Ring, Herde-Hüsecken, Birkhof, Me-ckelburg, Nordharz, Pötschke, Wassenaar, GC-Münsterland and Ratio.
Nor was there any change in retail area at EMV-Profi, even though the company numbered four garden centres more at the end of July 2004 than last year. By contrast…