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Home shopping company Empire Stores is to close, with the loss of some 850 jobs.

Angus Monro is the latest recruit to What More UK.

Interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen will be on the Arthur Price stand celebrating seven years of the partnership with the cutlery and gifts brand.

Ethos will unveil a number of new licences at Spring Fair, including Desperate Housewives, which will capitalise on the success of the television programme with products such as cookware, bakeware and kitchen tools.

New for 2008 and with a first European showing is an addition to the general Artland range, Amber Rose.

Andrew Martin, founder and owner of the cookware testing company Amstel Testing, died last week.

The power of the television chef is underlined today as sales of scallops and other ingredients soar in advance of tonight’s Cookalong Live programme with Gordon Ramsay.

HousewaresLive.net and Housewares Magazine are very pleased to announce that Gilberts Food Equipment is the latest company to sign up as a sponsor of the brand new Housewares Conference.

Woolworths’ Retail is expecting to return to profit said Woolworths Group today, as it released its trading figures for the 49 weeks to January 12 2008.

Celebrity chef and culinary alchemist Heston Blumenthal has stunned a Silverstone race track audience with a daring car stunt involving a cucumber and a Tojiro Senkou kitchen knife.