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Spring Fair Due to be held from February 4-8 at the NEC in Birmingham, Spring Fair bills itself as ‘the most vital buying event in any retailer’s calendar’. The event will showcase more than 2,500 exhibitors from the UK and overseas across 14 sectors. Spring Fair says attendees will ‘discover exciting UK and international designers and exhibitors, source the latest products from new and popular brands, keep up with the latest trends, and gain crucial retail advice that will set their business apart in 2018’.
Aspin Aspin says: ‘With over 30 years of experience in the distribution sector, we can advise and help you overcome any issues as you transition from paper- based methods to Aspin software. With iPad ordering, trade ecommerce websites and sharing images and data from the cloud, our clients know they can rely on us to plug the gaps in their processes with automation, improve their bottom line and drive their business forward.’
BHETA British Home Enhancement Trade Association (BHETA) represents over 200 supplier companies in the housewares, SDA, garden and DIY sectors. Speaking for £5 billion at retail and 9,000 employees, it is the leading authority in home enhancement and home improvement and provides a unique channel for dialogue with UK and overseas multiple and independent retailers. A UKTI partner, it also provides export expertise as well as all the compliance, lobbying and commercial advice expected of trade associations.
Brookes & Co Brookes & Co is a home and garden marketing and PR agency, specialising in research and brand strategy, offline and online content, POS and retail marketing, and literature and digital solutions for housewares, garden and home improvement companies.
Creative Products TV merchandising expert Creative Products offers a wide range of kitchen, garden, DIY and housewares utensils and gadgets which, the company says, ‘are all completely inspirational when presented to consumers in an explanatory and experiential manner’. The Grantham-based company offers a fully serviced merchandising system where products are supplied, promoted via in-store TV, serviced and replaced on a fully sale or return basis.
Creative Tops Creative Tops, a Lifetime Brands Inc. company, is a leading manufacturer of quality everyday kitchen and dining products. The company produces bespoke products for some of Britain’s most respected high street retailers and also has its own collection of branded products. The Creative Tops brand family includes coffee connoisseur La Cafetière, the couture-inspired Mikasa, British designer Katie Alice, and heritage brands V & A (Victoria & Albert Museum), and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Trend analysis is at the heart of the company to ensure each brand is at the forefront of fashions.
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David Mason Design David Mason Design (DMD) was founded by the present chairman, David Cowan, in 1962 and has long been a supplier of award-winning acrylic and wood salt and pepper mills. In recent years, DMD has used its design and entrepreneurial expertise to create own-label kitchen and dining collections for major retailers. In early 2017 it launched new collections from The English Tableware Company. This brand was established many years ago by DMD and aims to epitomise everything that is great about British design.
Dexam International Dexam International is a family company based in Midhurst, in the heart of the South Downs National Park. Two brothers started the company in 1957, travelling around the world discovering products for improving the home, and importing them into the UK. Today, the distributor brings products back from over 25 different countries and sells them all over the world. Dexam says: ‘You’ll find us working with designers and inventors in woodware workshops in Slovenia, small factories in Taiwan, cast iron foundries in France or cookery schools in London. All the time we are looking for great and innovative products that are great value and make cooking better, easier or just simply more fun.’
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DKB Household is a subsidiary of the Diethelm Keller Group, a globally operating Swiss holding company. It specialises in the development and management of brands, focusing on all areas that enhance and simplify home living. Its portfolio of house brands includes Zyliss, Cole & Mason and Culinare – as well as brands that it manages as licensee, such as Jamie Oliver and Ken Hom. DKB Household is a market leader in the design, development and distribution of household and kitchen products which are sold in more than 60 countries. It is continuously expanding its portfolio by investing in design, brand development and innovation to be market leaders in housewares
Dutch Creative Brands Dutch Creative Brands (formally the International Innovation Company) is a Dutch family-owned company that operates in over 85 countries, with a wholly-owned subsidiary based in the UK. The business, which originates from the invention of the Vacuum Wine Saver in 1986, specialises in the development, production and distribution of housewares products. All products developed by Dutch Creative Brands are either positioned under the brand Vacu Vin or Tomorrow’s Kitchen.
Gourmet Gadgetry Gourmet Gadgetry is a family-run business that grew from a passion for entertaining with food, and has become synonymous with manufacturing quality electrical kitchenware gadgets that ‘radiate style and inspire’. Its kitchen electricals, which include an award-winning pizza oven, retro popcorn maker and dessert maker, are manufactured to look as appealing as the food or drink that each gadget produces. They are combined with recipes and serving suggestions. Gourmet Gadgetry says:
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‘We’re always looking for new ways to inspire our customers’ culinary skills, sharing recipes and ideas on our social networking pages and showcase website.’
Harts of Stur Harts of Stur is a fourth generation, family-owned award- winning business based in the market town of Sturminster Newton in North Dorset - and one of the UK’s largest online and in-store retailers of cookware, kitchenware and kitchen electricals. The company says: ‘We pride ourselves on providing an extensive range of products at competitive prices and a rapid delivery service throughout the UK. Our exceptional customer care is second to none, whether you are shopping in- store or talking to one of our customer services team on the phone.’
Home Hardware Home Hardware is the largest dealer-owned buying organisation in the UK for independent hardware retailers. Its extensive wholesale distribution services include more than 19,500 products from over 300 leading brand names in bathroom, camping, cleaning, cookware, DIY, electrical, gardening, gifts, glassware, hardware, housewares, ironmongery, outdoor leisure, paint, plumbing and tableware. Home Hardware says it also offers private-label range, superior stock availability, low-cost efficient weekly deliveries from its distribution centres, over 200,000 direct shipment lines, an industry- leading illustrated Buyers Guide,
Homelink.net and B2B ordering system, extensive consumer premier league promotions and an optional corporate marketing programme.
Horwood Horwood’s lifeblood is independent cookshops, and it has been for over 119 years. Based in Bristol, Horwood claims to offer the ultimate collection of kitchenware to prepare, cook, serve and dine, across two brands (Stellar and Judge) and two price points.
IHA International Housewares Association (IHA) is a not-for- profit, full-service association committed to maximising the success of the home and housewares industry. Owned and operated by the IHA, the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago features over 2,200 exhibitors from more than 45 countries and 56,000 total attendees from 130 countries. The show is a leading marketplace to source market-driven innovative housewares and home goods products, designs and trends.
Joseph Joseph Since 2003, housewares supplier Joseph Joseph has expanded into many product areas and continues to explore new categories. ‘It may have all started with a simple glass chopping board,’ the brand says, ‘but we are now one of the fastest growing companies in the worldwide housewares market and continue to earn accolades and awards.’ The company continues: ‘We love solving everyday
problems through intelligent design. Whatever the challenge, or wherever in the home it occurs, we apply the same inventive thinking to everything we do. Our mission is to create desirable products that enhance everyday life and stay true to our philosophy of creating
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