Special feature


What makes a business built to last?


To help celebrate kbbreview’s milestone 500th issue, we’ve spoken to a whole host of long-running retailers, suppliers and distributors to dig a bit deeper into what makes them so resilient. All of the businesses highlighted in this special feature have been around


for decades (a bit like the magazine you’re reading right now), weathering industry upsets, Covid, Brexit, fi nancial crashes, the turning of the millennium, and in a rare few cases, even World Wars. They’ve seen it all, done it all, and learnt all the lessons along the way, so


the advice they can share is well worth hearing for any business in the KBB sector.


Whether you’re a relatively new retailer in this industry, or one that’s been


around for a similar time to some of these long-running industry icons, what’s the secret to longevity in the KBB industry? Read on to fi nd out…


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