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The Professional Cookware Company chain of cookware and kitchenware shops went into administration today.
Read More »BHF online survey ‘will provide best picture of trade’
“The antidote to supermarket-dominated sales monitors” is how BHF Group communications director Michael Weedon describes the retail trade association’s new online quarterly business survey.
Read More »Downturn knocks sales at Beales
Department store retailer Beales saw like-for-like sales fall 6.4% in the half year to May 3 and expects no improvement in the months ahead.
Read More »Store openings cut as JC Penney reins in spending
US housewares and fashion retailer JC Penney has slashed its store opening programme for next year in light of what it describes as “a period that we expect to remain very challenging for the American consumer”.
Read More »Consumers bottle out of buying wine
Sales of wine are in the sharpest decline ever recorded, as a result of the economic downturn.
Read More »Circulon moves on with contemporary styling
The new Circulon Elite range of non-stick cookware from Meyer Group offers all of the brand’s top attributes but with distinctive new contemporary styling.
Read More »Meyer has speciality drinks down to a tea
Meyer Group has unveiled Fine T, a new concept in speciality tea machines and the first product to emerge under the company’s new IQ Innovations brand.
Read More »Deco’s new colours are on the boil
Vibrant red and slate blue are the latest colours to be sported by the Prestige Deco range of kettles and toasters from Meyer Group.
Read More »Student turns a toaster into pop art
An art student has taken a stand against over-designed products by making a toaster with a record-breaking pop-up facility.
Read More »UHM raises £200 for Rainy Day Trust
Industry charity the Rainy Day Trust is £200 better off thanks to the generosity of members of United Housewares Merchants and their suppliers.
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