David Quayle Television South, City Vision, Ritz Video, Granada Group and the Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery. 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
DIY Week the major business magazine for its market, absorbing its main competitor, "The Ironmonger", as well as many small titles. It was renamed "DIY Week" in 1988, reflecting the rise of the DIY market, and switched to fortnightly frequency in 1991. Datateam acquired the magazine in 2013. 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