David Quayle David Quayle David Andrew Quayle (19 August 1936 – 6 April 2010) was a British businessman best known as co-founder of the UK DIY chain B&Q. He worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q retail chain in 1969. Their idea of large warehouse-style DIY stores copied the style already successfully operating in other European countries, but was unknown in the UK and B&Q soon became the largest retail suppliers of DIY products in the UK. David left B&Q in 1982 and moved on to other companies, working in
DIY Week DIY Week DIY Week is a British fortnightly business-to-business magazine for those in the do it yourself (DIY), household hardware and homeware market. The magazine is published by Datateam in Maidstone, Kent, in England. Founded in 1874, "DIY Week" is sold to retailers of hardware, housewares, garden and DIY products, and their suppliers, and contains news, comment, financial analysis and market trend information. Originally launched by a Birmingham hardware wholesaler as "Martineau & Smith's Monthly Circular", the magazine was very soon renamed "Hardware Trade Journal", and changed from monthly to weekly publication in 1900. Over the following decades it became