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Shortlist revealed for kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2020
THE FINALISTS for the biggest and longest running awards in the kitchen and bathroom industry have been unveiled. The kbbreview Retail & Design
Awards 2020 ceremony will be held on Monday, March 2 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole alongside the kbb 2020 exhibition at the NEC. The shortlist for the 2020 awards includes many familiar names still at the top of their game as well as plenty of newcomers looking to take their place among the industry’s top talent. Stalwarts include Kitchens by JS Geddes and Kitchens International in Scotland, as well as Soaks Bathrooms in Belfast and TileStyle in Dublin. Stephen Graver, who has been a winner in these awards as a designer, now features in Kitchen Showroom of the Year and last year’s winner BathroomsByDesign appears again in Bathroom Showroom of the Year. There are also new categories including New Kitchen Retailer of the Year which features, among others Stone & Chrome. They’re also a fi nalist in the Bathroom Showroom of the Year but they branched out into kitchens
Managing editor Andrew Davies during 2019. It also includes Rouse Bathrooms in
West Wickham, Kent – a former Bathstore franchisee who has managed to turn the collapse of that company into a new independent business. In the design categories, there are of new names as
plenty well as
previous winners and fi nalists. Diane Berry, from her eponymous kitchen business in Manchester is back, and Pippa Paton has chalked up two
nominations – one for kitchens and one for bathrooms.
The other double nominee is newcomer Amy Stoddart from DayTrue who is also shortlisted in both kitchens and bathrooms. “It’s always a momentous moment
when I do all the sums and the shortlist takes shape in front of me,” said kbbreview managing editor Andrew Davies. “The judges have done a great job as there’s some fantastic entries in
Winners at the awards in 2019
there. The next stage of judging begins in earnest now as we head towards the event in March where the winners are revealed.”
The kbbreview Retail & Design
Awards is sponsored by some of the biggest names in the industry and is the biggest social and networking event of the year. To book your places go
to
www.kbbreview.com/awards and if you do it before January 10 you can pay by invoice.
Here’s the run down of the fi nalists so far. The full shortlist, including Customer Service of the Year, Community Champion of the Year, and Sales Rep of the Year is at
www.kbbreview.com/awards
Kitchen Retailer of the Year Classic Interiors, Solihull Kitchens by J S Geddes, Kilmarnock Kitchens International, Broxburn The Myers Touch, Winchester
Bathroom Retailer of the Year TileStyle, Dublin Soaks Bathrooms, Belfast Laings, Inverurie The Bathroom Company, Edinburgh
Kitchen Showroom of the Year Stephen Graver, Wiltshire Kitchens International, Broxburn KC Design House, Yorkshire The Myers Touch, Winchester
Bathroom Showroom of the Year Stone & Chrome, Camberley BathroomsByDesign, Brentford Laings, Inverurie The Bathroom Company, Edinburgh
Kitchens Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine launches These Three Rooms
THE TEAM behind Kitchens Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine, kbbreview’s sister title, has launched a new consumer-facing website,
thesethreerooms.com A spin-off from Britain’s best-selling consumer kitchen, bedroom and bathroom design magazine, the innovative digital offering brings a brand new concept and offers homeowners taking on a renovation project up-to-the-minute expert advice, buying guides and real-home inspiration direct from the team who put together the magazine. Building on the growing success of the print title, the team led by editor Lindsay Blair, are on hand every day to share their extensive knowledge of kitchen, bedroom and bathroom design, plus share
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their own experiences through a series of blogs. “These Three Rooms is an exciting new offering in
the kbb world, and one that I am very proud to launch with my amazing team,” says Blair, who became editor of the magazine in April 2018.
“For too long, magazine journalists have hidden behind the scenes, but in this new digital age where blogs and multi-media content are of growing importance, the new site is a chance to step out from behind the curtain and put our faces to the expert advice we share with our audience,” she adds. “We live and breathe kitchen, bedroom and bathroom design every day in our jobs and the magazine is extremely well respected for its expertise, so These Three Rooms gives us a chance to share
New Kitchen Retailer of the Year Schwarz Kitchens, Haywards Heath Stone & Chrome, Camberley Bauen Design, Glasgow Kutchenhaus Wilmslow, Wilmslow
New Bathroom Retailer of the Year Draw A Bath, Heswall, Wirral Ribble Valley Bathrooms, Clitheroe Fairfi eld Builders Supplies, Buxton Rouse Bathrooms, West Wickham, Kent
our breadth of knowledge on a daily basis and connect to our readers much more regularly than a monthly magazine – it’s the perfect counterpart to the well-established print edition.”
These Three Rooms will host content created by
Lindsay, features editor Georgina, sub-editor Stefanie and art editor Hannah.
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