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Industry urged to embrace inclusivity and diversity
SENIOR WOMEN from two infl uential brands have addressed the lack of females in top KBB roles and opened up about how the industry would benefi t from embracing inclusivity and diversity at all levels of business. Speaking on a special episode of
the award-winning kbbreview Podcast – to mark International Women’s Day – Teresa Arbuckle (pictured top left), managing director of Beko and Raffaela De Vittorio, sales director of Geberit UK, both championed the role of women in the KBB industry and highlighted why every organisation should be looking to create a more balanced and diverse workforce. “The world itself doesn’t really promote or encourage women at the early stages of their career to think about taking on positions of leadership,” explained Beko’s Arbuckle. “This isn’t just a KBB industry issue, it’s a broader business issue. It is changing, it is getting better, but we need to make it a focus.” Talking specifi cally about the need to down
break barriers in order to encourage more women to take on
leadership roles in the KBB industry, Geberit’s De Vittorio said: “There’s this idea that women don’t enjoy the technical challenges of the job or engaging with. That’s one aspect of this industry that needs addressing.” During the podcast, both Arbuckle and De Vittorio hammered home why it is important for KBB brands to have a more diverse and inclusive workforce and how the industry as a whole can look to achieve this moving forward. “More and more studies show how diversity creates better, more interesting companies,” added Arbuckle. “This isn’t just about the female agenda – it’s an inclusion agenda.
“Many companies are already doing it – we just need to shine a light on the issue to help others with ways of accepting a more inclusive workforce”
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Schüller optimistic for year ahead as 2020 sales rise 8% to €600m
FAMILY-RUN GERMAN kitchen manufacturer Schüller has reported a positive year in 2020 with sales up 8.4% to €600.8 million (£522.8m). Schüller described 2020 as “a year characterised by signifi cant social and economic challenges” due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with its Franconia factory entering a period of short-time working in April.
Despite this, the company grew sales at home and to export and invested in further production space, expansion of on-site facilities and pushed forward with its digital training programmes.
Overall sales were up 8.4% to €600.8m. In its home market, sales rose by 9.8% to €451.3m, while in a “diffi cult export environment” Schüller increased by 4.6% to €149.5m. The company said that March and April, with international lockdowns and company shutdowns, led to supply challenges and a “considerable drop in sales”. By May, however, with signs of positive consumer behaviour, Schüller saw sales return to the same level as 2019. This positive trend, it said, continued throughout the remainder of 2020.
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