best sellers Charlies Stores
Home and outdoor living stores in Wales & The Borders Thanks to Sue McCarthy
Beldray Cordless Quick Vat Lite £49.99 There is a strong move towards cordless vacs and this offers a good entry price point
Creative Products Push And Fix suction hook £4.99 Sold incredibly well in the run up to Christmas; sales will probably now reduce
Kontrol Damp Crystals eg 2.5kg £4.49 An excellent seller in the Autumn/Winter months
Simplehuman 45L slim brushed steel pedal bin £74.99 Branded quality bin
KitchenCraft Artesa two-tier serving stand £19.99 An ongoing best seller
Creative Products rubber broom £7.99 Offered for sale on TV unit. It really does work as per the video and our customers love it
Beldray 30L Soft Close stainless steel bin £19.99 Good price for a basic, branded bin
What More UKWham 62L recycled storage box £11.99 Much stronger than your average plastic storage, liked by both male and female customers
HG mould spray £5.99 By far the best seller from the HG cleaning range
Tradestock Alternato ladies’ and gentlemen’s gin glasses £4.99 each Novelty gift that seems to sell for us all year
Salter 28cm Megastone frying pan £19.99 Good quality, with an ultra non-stick surface. Can be used on all heat sources including induction
Catherine Lansfield Stag multi duvet set: single £9.99, double £13.99, king £16.99 Our best-selling design for the last 12 months - in both summer and winter
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La Cookshop
23 Milkhope Centre, Blagdon, Northumberland Thanks to Keith Crowther
Cambridge Bamboo Eco
Sippy Mug £4.99 Even Mary Portas agrees that the travel cup was one of THE products of 2018. She’s right.
Prestige bakeware eg Swiss roll tin £9.99 Ever popular because of the quality. Excellent value
Horwood Stellar 5000 5-piece cookware set £149 Induction range. A repeat best seller
RSWTwelve Days of Christmas tableware eg dinner plate £5.99 Popular because of the season
Dexam Charles Viancin silicone lids from £7.99 Repeat good seller - we stopped counting at 10000!
Prestige Strainaway 5-piece pan set £80 A good value starter pack of pans
Royal WorcesterWrendale china mug set of four £22 (half price) Always a good seller at Christmas
Le Creuset salt and pepper mills two for £39 National promotion. I was pleasantly surprised how well this did for us
Meyer Circulon roaster £9.99 Half price Christmas promotion
Villaggio Verde Forever Olive olive wood boards from £14.99 Steady selling product that’s well priced and good quality
Terraillon electronic scale £14.99 (half price) When you weigh it up, they are good value!
Dartington Crystal set of six wine glasses £19.99 Good range of sizes that sell all year
Fifteen years ago this month in Housewares Magazine…
• Ikea gained planning permission for its largest store to date in the UK: a 300,000sq ft outlet in Edmonton, north London.
• Rayware acquired the Arthur Wood name, designs, brands and all remaining stock.
• Housewares Magazine’s ‘Mystery Shopper’ travelled to Los Angeles and declared Sur La Table as the winner of a survey of the California city’s housewares retailers. Described as ‘every cook’s dream’, the shop beat Macy’s; Crate & Barrel; Bed, Bath & Beyond; and Williams-Sonoma.
• Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson was among the culinary stars scheduled to hold demonstrations at the Gourmet Products Show in San Francisco in May.
• Tefal launched a TV and press advertising campaign to support its Jamie Oliver Professional cookware series, with a first half year spend of £1.5 million
• Clements department store in Watford closed its doors after 106 years of trading in the Hertfordshire town.
• Tynwald Mills department store on the Isle of Man had just opened a 7,000sq ft Room & Garden store.
• Typhoon 12in wok, Carl Kammerling Intl waiter’s friend corkscrew/bottle opener, Candlelight Products’ New England tableware, KitchenCraft Le Parfait preserving jars, Swarton Gift Sales cut crystal and Horwood Stellar Hard Anodised cookware were the bestselling selling products at Armstrong & Pybus (Kirkby Lonsdale), Arthur Fordham & Co (Lyme Regis), EJ Cassells (Ballymoney), Leigh & Sons (Witney), The Cookshop (Peebles) and Upstairs Downstairs (Oswestry) respectively.
Source: Housewares Magazine January 2004
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