B&Q DIY Superstore is the largest home improvement and garden centre retailer in the UK.

B&Q is the UK's leading DIY and garden centre retailer, offering over 45,000 encouraging home improvement and garden products for the homemaker, infrequent to serious DIY'er, and trade professionals. B&Q is the number one DIY retailer in Europe and the third biggest in the world, with more than 60 shops opened globally, including B&Q Beijing, which is now the biggest B&Q store in the humankind. B&Q is the leading home improvement retailer in the UK, with 14.8% of the refurbish, maintenance and expansion market share (involves DIY and builders merchant sales). B&Q targets for a sustainable approach to both improvement sites and store design. In seeking to safeguard new sites for development, B&Q functions within national and local planning policy guidelines.

1969 B&Q was established by Richard Block and David Quayle and the primary store opened in Portswood, Southampton. 1979 the Company had gone public; 26 stores in function. 2002 B&Q opened its first store in the Republic of Ireland. B&Q is awarded chain-of-custody official recognition for both Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC) and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). 2009 B&Q begins one year sponsorship of 4homes, Channel 4's property filament including established programmes Grand Designs, Property Ladder, Location and Relocation.

B&Q opened its most eco shop in New Malden, London which will be at least 50% more competent in its carbon emissions as compared to rest of B&Q stores. Since 1990 we have taken a optimistic approach to the challenges that social accountability presents and have urbanized solutions that not only address our environmental and social impacts but also add value to our business and its reputation. Each product we sell at B&Q has its own unique life cycle or story. As such we have a responsibility to make sure that any possible environmental impact is as low as probable during manufacture, use and disposal.

It is our obligation to ensure that everyone occupied in B&Q supply chains remuneration from trading with us. Our consumers want great products at great prices, but not at the cost of the people who make them. We are dedicated to sourcing products responsibly. At B&Q we are committed to eliminating all forms of favouritism and ensuring an inclusive environment irrespective of age, sex, marital or civil partnership status, colour, cultural or national origin, civilization, religion, spiritual belief or similar philosophical belief, disability, political affiliation, gender identity, gender reassignment or sexual orientation. We have a momentous influence on the communities in which we function, and our aim is for all our shops to be welcomed as 'good neighbours' in the communities that they serve, including the input of skills and funding to selected community projects.

Ever since 1990 we have taken an optimistic approach to the challenges that social accountability presents and has urbanized solutions that not only address our environmental and communal impacts but also insert value to our business and its status. Every product we sell at B&Q has its own exclusive life cycle or story. As such we have an accountability to ensure that any likely environmental impact is as low as possible during manufacture, use and discarding. B&Q aims for a sustainable approach to both expansion sites and store design. In quest of secure new sites for development, B&Q works within nationwide and local planning policy guidelines.