The French DIY store chains Bricomarché and Bricorama are selling prepaid cards with which customers can have small jobs done in and around the house.
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The French DIY store chains Bricomarché and Bricorama are selling prepaid cards with which customers can have small jobs done in and around the house.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, DIY is more popular than ever.
French home improvement retailers experienced continued high sales in July, even if the growth rates declined somewhat.
August saw a loss of growth momentum across the eurozone private sector, according to provisional Purchasing Managers Index (PMI®) survey data, following a rebound from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related downturn.
French home improvement retailers experienced continued high sales in July, even if the growth rates declined somewhat.
The downturn in eurozone construction activity continued to ease in July, adding to further signs that the sector may turn a corner in the coming months if the economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The link below leads to all state aid support measures granted by the European Commission under the Temporary Framework to support the economy in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak (since March 2020).
In the DIY trade in Switzerland, the positive swings of the sales curve in the first half of the year were somewhat less drastic than in Germany and Austria.
The rate of increase in productivity was the fastest for just over six years. By sector, manufacturing and services both registered productivity improvements, with the former reporting the steeper increase.
The majority of sectors achieved growth of output at the start of the second half of 2020, as governments continued to ease restrictions brought in to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
