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Pippa Middleton has been signed as a new columnist for Waitrose's monthly magazine ‘Waitrose Kitchen’.

Next month Home Hardware retailers will collectively distribute over 1.1 million Home & Garden brochures and leaflets - an increase of over 4% on the previous year.

Thirteen housewares suppliers, ranging from big brands to small entrepreneurs, have been named as the winners of the second annual IHA [International Housewares Association] Innovation Awards.

Waitrose says it will expand further into non-food when it adds a record number of new products to its Essential Waitrose range this year.

Housewares in garden centres; housewares design trends and influences; a behind-the-scenes look at Selfridges; and the story of one cookshop's half-century of success - just some of the topics in store for delegates at next month's Housewares Conference.

Cookware ranges will be among the Homebase products to benefit from the retailer's new sponsorship deal with Food on 4 television programmes.

Investing in giving customers what they want in a fast-changing market helped the John Lewis Partnership drive gross sales up 9.3% last year, the retailer said today.

This week saw the announcement of the five 2012/2013 retailer Global Honorees in the US Global Innovation Awards programme.

Ambiente offers not so much a snapshot of trends as a whole album, says Sarah Selzer in her second report from the Frankfurt show.

Eddingtons marketing manager Sonia Spencer completed a gruelling run last weekend in aid of charity.