best sellers
Cooking Fantastic The Cud Life, Ripon Road, Harrogate
Thanks to Tanya Umpleby
T&G Woodware Tip Top Mills from £14.99 Simply the best mills: great for salt, pepper, spices. They really do work and last
CKS Euro Scrubby multi-purpose scrubber £2.99 We can’t get enough of these but when we run out (which we do regularly!) the service from CKS is fantastic
KitchenCraftMasterClass Egg Topper £12.99 A great product to demonstrate: we just take the top off a raw egg and leave it on display
Robert Welch Designs bread knife £48 Truly the best bread knife we’ve ever used and it tempts customers to complete their range of knives
CKS Grab Mitt £8.99 When anyone is looking for oven gloves, we show them these and that you can store them over the bar of your oven. Once people buy, we sell at least another four pairs for friends and family
Dexam Chef'n Twist & Sprout Brussels sprout tool £8.99 May not be as popular now but it was a great pick up line leading up to Christmas - and really works
NJ Products novelty loo rolls from £3.99 I mean what cookshop doesn’t sell loads of novelty loo rolls? Oh, just us then!
KitchenCraft stainless steel 2-in-1 drinking straw/stirrer set of two £5.99
Much better for the environment than plastic straws
DPS TablewareWellie glasses from £2.99 As our shop is on a farm, we serve milkshakes in our coffee shop in these and they are really popular
Boxer Gifts Knob Grabbers £4.99 Made from silicone, this helps you grab saucepan knobs with ease. We sell a huge amount
Eddingtons Poach Perfect silicone egg shell poacher £4.99 These always need an explanation on how to use them so customers get the best of them but we love them: I use mine at least once a week
Silverwood Tray Bake £24.50 We use this in our coffee shop and it really is the best. Most recipes people ask us about use a 12x8 traybake and this fits the bill perfectly
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Thanks to Anne Ness Tradestock Alternato ladies’ gin
glass £3.99 Popular gift item over the festive period. A lovely glass to complement current gin trends
Horwood Judge 24cm stock pot £47.99 A decent sized stock pot that does what it says on the tin
KitchenCraftMasterClass 300ml vacuum flask £9.99 The smallest in our flask range but the most popular, particularly with students as it takes up so little space
Bosch Blender £19.99 The Bosch brand and its 300w motor capacity are winning features. Brilliant for soup and smoothies
Creative Tops La Cafetiere Monaco 3-cup retro blue £19.99 Much appreciated for its modern retro style and colour
KitchenCraft MasterClass 20cm non-stick sandwich pan £8.99 Great for cakes, quiches and pies, this non-stick, loose base sandwich pan is the most popular in the range
KitchenCraft Fred Dino Fossil cookie cutter £9.99 These cookie cutters prove very popular with our younger customers
Bosch Jug Electric Kettle white 1.7L £29.99 A quality kettle with a modern design that’s simple to use. The Bosch name is a key factor in customers’ selection
KitchenCraft oval teapot with filter £39.99 This jewel square design is an eye-catching artistic teapot. The range makes a lovely window display
Horwood Judge 30cm non-stick wok £15.99
Our best-selling wok is particularly popular with students who, by all counts, make everything in it, including porridge!
Gainsborough Giftware Geometric Bamboo travel mug £5.25 With our takeaway coffee culture changing, these eco-friendly and reusable travel mugs have been a huge success
RKW Elegento 3-tray buffet server £24.99 I’m from an era that can remember family members having hostess trolleys/tabletops… I still can’t believe how popular this (and the 4-tray buffet server) has been
Ten years ago this month in Housewares Magazine…
• Derby-based housewares supplier Denby commemorated 200 years of trading at the Spring Fair.
• Plasticware manufacturer Thumbs Up Bury was bucking the recession, investing heavily in new machinery and increasing its exports.
• Celebrity designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen paid a visit to the Spring Fair to promote his new cutlery collection on the Arthur Price stand.
• Housewares Magazine’s Mystery Shopper visited Maidstone and nominated Robert Dyas as the winner of a survey of the Kent town’s housewares retailers, commenting: ‘As the self-styled Really Useful Store, it is what it is and it does it well.’ The branch beat rivals Cook & Dine Store and House of Fraser.
• Emma Bridgewater Daniel Craig tea towel, Grunwerg Global 3-piece knife set with bamboo board, Fairmont & Main Chickens egg holder
and Eddingtons Egg Shell egg poacher were the best sellers at Cheltenham Kitchener (Gloucestershire), Cooks & Kitchens (Darlington), Kate’s Cook Shop (Melton Mowbray) and Kitchenmonger (Hungerford).
• Lakeland repeated its ‘The Next Big’ event at the Spring Fair. The housewares chain’s buyers invited suppliers to pitch new innovative kitchenware, storage and home cleaning products or protoypes to them at a session held during the show.
• Nordicware revealed that the day after celebrity cook Nigella Lawson used its Holiday Tree Bundt pan on TV in early December to make her Spruced Up Vanilla Cake, all of its stock of the product sold out in 20 minutes.
Source: Housewares Magazine January/February 2009
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