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Fiskars’ Kitchen Devils knife brand is launching the The Kitchen Crumpet Awards to encourage the public to go online, vote for their favourite chef and to win.

John Lewis has announced plans to open its first new shop outside the UK - a full-line department store in Dublin city centre.

Major US kitchenware retailer and catalogue operator Williams-Sonoma says it is “reacting aggressively” to the economic downturn, which has progressively slashed sales over the past three months.

With the average tea drinker boiling twice the amount of water needed for every one of the 165m cups of tea consumed daily, sustainable business organisation Envirowise is calling on office workers to become more resource conscious when making their brew.

Christmas retail sales this year will stagnate, showing 0% growth - a marked contrast to the average 5% growth in seasonal spending seen each year since the start of the millennium.

Department store retailer Beales has opened a Salt & Pepper shop-within-a-shop at its Horsham branch - the first time the European concept has been seen in full in the UK.

New from JVL are these Ecoir door mats, which are both eco-friendly and bio-degradable.

Arthur Price is bucking the downturn, having in September achieved its biggest-ever monthly sales performance in its trade division and opened over 120 new accounts.

Administrators of the Rosebys group of companies have sold 77 of the textile retailer’s outlets nationwide, and all their stock, to a subsidiary of Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

Housewares suppliers owed money following the collapse of wedding list company Wrapit are unlikely to see any of it, according to its administrators.