A turnover down 1.4%. That’s to say a 3rd consecutive 12 months of decline after the increase linked to Covid-19. The marketplace for bricolage continued its decline in 2025.
Gross sales of enormous DIY shops – Leroy MerlinCastorama, Mr Bricolage, Bricomarché and many others. – reached 21.8 billion euros, introduced Monday the FMB (Federation of DIY shops) and Inoha (industrialists within the sector). However the sector doesn’t see life in black. “Regardless of three consecutive years of decline, the market stays above its pre-health disaster degree”, with a turnover of 20 billion euros in 2019.
The DIY market, boosted by the Covid-19 epidemic which had restored significance to dwelling and backyard design, had reached 23.4 billion euros in 2021 as in 2022. Another excuse for this decline is discovered within the “at all times advanced financial setting” which supplies rise to “client arbitrage”, identified the president of the FMB Paul Cassignol. Whereas believing that “the French proceed to think about their habitat as a protected haven”.
Two areas are rising in 2025. Heating reveals a rise of three.3%, pushed by the rise in gross sales of air conditioners and followers throughout numerous heatwave episodes. The electrical energy part elevated by 0.6%, due to “the rising curiosity of people in electrical and renovation work”. Quite the opposite, the wooden and carpentry departments in addition to plumbing, lavatory and kitchen departments fell by 2.4% and 1.5% respectively in comparison with 2024.
One hope: the rising marketplace for previous actual property
The FMB and Inoha additionally famous a 14% enhance in gross sales of previous houses, or 951,000 transactions in 2025. These properties typically go hand in hand with main renovations and represent one of many fundamental levers of the DIY market.
On-line gross sales (which characterize 6.2% of the entire turnover of enormous DIY shops) continued to develop in 2025, with a rise of seven.7%, whereas in-store gross sales fell by 1.9%.
