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May 2020

  • News: New association aims to secure best future for bathroom retailers
  • News: Wren reduces its showroom staff
  • Retailer Profile: Sheffield Sustainable Kitchens
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Burlane Interiors

April 2020

  • News: Baumann launches bathrooms in the UK
  • Retailer Profile: Bathe and Beyond
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Humphrey Munson

13th issue – The design trends shaping your world

  • Feature: Timeless design
  • Feature: International design

March 2020 

  • Online-only news: Smart technology creates theatre in the showroom, says BSH
  • News: Ashley Ann expands HQ with £2 million investment

February 2020 

  • News: City vibes and global living
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Searle and Taylor

January 2020 

  • Online-only news: Firefighters battle blasé at kronospan’s Chirk factory
  • News: Bauformat opens first UK training centre
  • News: An ideal partnership

December 2019 

  • News: Ex-Bathstore franchisee bounces back under own name
  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Joe Fattorini
  • Feature Q&A: ‘Our mission is suitability’, Insinkerator
  • Feature: Let’s get Digital: Make Friends and influence people
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Retailer Profile: Cambridgeshire Bathrooms
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Silver Birch Interiors

November 2019 

  • News: Kohler Mira declares goal to be carbon-neutral by 2035
  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Emma Culshaw Bell
  • Feature: Manufacturing profile: Sales figures never lie, TKC
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Retailer Profile: KCA
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: New Forest Designs

October 2019

  • Feature: Manufacturing profile: Kohler Mira UK
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Retailer Profile: The Furniture Union
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: DNA Bathrooms

September 2019 

  • News: George Clarke calls for 100,000 council houses a year for 30 years
  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Roberto Palomba
  • Feature: Distributor profile: ‘We’ve never gone for a quick sale’, CDUK
  • Feature: The forgotten B (bedrooms)
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Simply Kitchens

August 2019 

  • Online-only news: Mira Showers wins second Queen’s Award for Enterprise
  • Online-only news: BCT bought out by Al-Murad Tiles
  • Online-only news: New sales director for LG UK
  • News: Bathstore in administration
  • News: Ideal Standard targets design crowd with £1m showroom in Clerkenwell
  • Online-only IG video: Ideal Standard showroom
  • Feature Q&A: Minhyeok Bu, Samsung
  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Brent Heavener, @tinyhouse
  • Feature: Manufacturing profile: Grohe
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: CP Hart

July 2019 

  • News: Uncertainty is ‘hurting consumer confidence’
  • News: Our potential is so big, Brexit is irrelevant, says Grohe CEO
  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Simon Rimmer
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Tom Howley

June 2019 

  • Feature Q&A: Mark Bickerstaffe, Kohler
  • Feature: Experiential retailing: ‘Everyone deserves an experience’, Parlour Farm, ‘It’s all about breaking down barriers’ Kitchen Culture and Stars of the big screens, Marks Electrical
  • Feature: Distributor profile: ‘Without good customers, I don’t exits’, IDS
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Porcelanosa

May 2019 

  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Georgie Barrat
  • Feature Q&A: Manufacturing profile: ‘We only work with true partners’, Vitra
  • Feature: Manufacturing profile: Prepared for whatever Brexit brings, Blanco
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Dobsons

April 2019 

  • Feature Q&A: Neolith
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Retailer profile: ‘Customers must get on board or go elsewhere’, Sustainable Kitchens
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Baden Bathrooms

March 2019

  • Feature: A marriage of convenience, retailer/supplier relationships
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Acaelia Home Design

February 2019

  • Online-only news: : BCT retailers ‘left in dark’ over administration
  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Simon Acres
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Manufacturing profile: British, bullish and Brexit ready, Omega
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Bury St Edmunds

January 2019

  • Online-only news: Cevisama: Brexit fears blamed for dip in Spanish tile sales
  • Online-only feature: Tile counsel: How to create a showroom display
  • Online-only news: Omega ‘taking the bull by the horns and investing’ ahead of Brexit
  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Joel and Kate Booy
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Richard and Richard’s

December 2018 

  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with George Clarke
  • Feature: Making the internet work for you
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Classic Interiors

November 2018

  • Online-only news: Neolith celebrates strong first year of direct sales in the UK
  • Online-only news: MHK buying group growing but behind target in UK
  • News: Kbsa hits 40th anniversary and report ‘unheard of’ growth
  • Feature Q&A: ‘Join us and be a bigger industry voice..’, Allister Reed, kbsa
  • Feature Q&A: Designer roundtable
  • Feature: ‘People still want a German kitchen’, Jens Klar, Nobilia
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Conducting the perfect event
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Harlequin Bathrooms

October 2018 

  • News: Ram raiders wreck kitchen showroom
  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Rachel Khoo
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom, appliance and surface
  • Feature: Retailer profile: From rivals to partners, Kutchenhaus
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Victoria and Albert

September 2018 

  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Kurt Merki Jr
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom and appliance
  • Feature: ‘I wanted to build an army of women plumbers’, Hattie Hassan
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Harvey Jones

August 2018

  • Feature Q&A: In conversation with Patricia Urquiola
  • Feature: Hire purpose
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom and appliance
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Elite Stone

July 2018 

  • Online-only news: and video: New colours and styles for PWS’s 1909 kitchens
  • Feature: Navigating the marketing minefield
  • Trends: Kitchen, bathroom and appliance
  • Feature: Showroom of the month: Farnham Furnishers

June 2018

 

Builders’ Merchants News (BMN)

BMN Leading lights

  • Feature: Independents
  • Feature: Nationals
  • Feature: Branch openings
  • Feature: Giving something back
  • Feature: Voice of the independents

April, 2018

  • Feature: Take a look into virtual reality

BMF Supplement

  • Feature: Elliott’s 175th Anniversary
  • Feature: A decade of Digby Stone
  • Feature Q&A: 30 minutes with Glenn Paddison

March 2018

  • Feature: Investing in people and branches

October 2018

  • Feature: Timco is expanding to support its legacy

 

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