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An electric deep fryer is being recalled by US retailer J C Penney, Homeworldbusiness.com reports today.

Dunelm has enjoyed the fastest-growing share within the homewares market and driven half-year profits up by 24%.

The £11.3b homewares market may be one of retail’s smaller sectors, but it has become an intense battleground, concludes Verdict’s new UK Homewares Retailers 2008 report.

PubChef of the Year 2008 Ross Williams has become the latest chef to promote IO Shen Mastergrade knives from Knife Wizard.

Almost half of men believe that a woman’s most important skill is being able to cook.

Electric sauté pans that cook food on any surface, replacing hobs, and electric tables that rise from the floor to either coffee or dining level – just some of the 50-year-old predictions for 21st century living that are now being revisited.

Amefa says last month’s Spring Fair gave the company a chance to introduce retailers to the people behind last October’s takeover of Richardson Sheffield, and to the new product proposition.

“Probably the most unexpected development in bakeware for many years” is how Alan Silverwood is describing what will soon be the newest addition to its range.

Kitchenware, tabletop lines and cleaning products are all included in the offer of new online store plaingorgeous.co.uk.

Few cookshop and kitchenware department buyers were expected to be anywhere other than in front of their televisions at 8.30 last night, as Delia Smith returned to the screen.