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Eddingtons helped Gary Gordon, owner of the Kitchen Kapers cookshop chain, celebrate his 60th birthday at the most recent meeting of the Cook@Group.

Sainsbury's announced today that it is ending its partnership with Jamie Oliver.

Learning about manufacturing was made a whole lot more interesting yesterday for the party of 18 local schoolchildren who visited plastic housewares supplier What More UK.

Will Parsons, editor of HousewaresLive.net's sister titles DIY Week and diyweek.net, and group ad manager Rachael Lyon are among 17 individuals taking to the skies for the inaugural Rainy Day Trust tandem parachute jump.

Groupe SEB has been given the go-ahead by China's Ministry of Commerce to raise its interest in Chinese manufacturer Supor.

The Italian design-led Guzzini brand is terminating its 40-years-plus UK distributor relationship with Forma House.

A new cookshop has opened in Tring, Hertfordshire - a spin-off from an established hardware store in the town.

TJ Hughes' administrators have appointed retail consultants GA Europe to help liquidate stock in the chain's 57 stores, amid news of "strong interest in the business".

Prompted by the failure of such high-profile names as TJ Hughes, Habitat and Life & Style, BHETA is advising affected suppliers to act on Retention of Title as quickly as possible in order to have a chance of reducing bad debts.

The recent rash of high street failures could panic suppliers into cutting back on credit to retailers, Ernst & Young is warning.