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KITCHEN RETAILER PROFILE | Itek Design


Left to right: Design director, Daniel De Jesus and managing director, Ray Llufrio


SOLIDas a rock


Like many, Gibraltar-based kitchen retailer Itek Design is bracing itself for Brexit. It may face import tariffs and many of its staff commute in daily from Spain. Rebecca Nottingham went to meet managing director Ray Llufrio and design director Daniel De Jesus who are confident they will find a way around it


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t may be a three-hour flight away and share a border with Spain, but Gibraltar is in fact a British Overseas Territory.


With its iconic red phone boxes, bobbies on the beat and a high street full of our top retail names, you could be forgiven for thinking that you are actually in the UK. It’s essentially Britain, but with the lure of tax-free shopping and significantly better weather. And, it’s this strong sense of Britishness running through Gibraltar that’s behind my visit to ‘the Rock’ and, more specifically,


Itek Design – the kitchen


business run by Gibraltarians Ray Llufrio – managing director – and Daniel De Jesus, design director. Though Gibraltar is not part of the UK, as a British Overseas Territory, it will, by default, cease to be a part of the EU upon the UK’s withdrawal. Despite the fact that, since my visit, following a whitewash general election win by the Conservatives we can now be sure that a Brexit of some description will eventually happen, the uncertainty remains as to what it will all mean for businesses like Itek. “The border for commercial crossing is only open


for 30 hours a week – and has been since it opened 36 years ago,” explains Llufrio. “It’s open for six hours a day – five days a week. “Because of that tight window, everything to do with the ordering process for any kitchen design project has to be meticulously planned. With Brexit, and depending on the type of deal we get, so many issues remain unclear.” And, it’s not just getting supplies over the border


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