news BHETA consults on Challenge 25


Following a workshop on responsible knife retailing hosted by British Home Enhancement Trade Association (BHETA) on May 15, the trade body has met the Retail of Alcohol Standards Group (RASG) with a view to securing approval to adopt its Challenge 25 scheme. Challenge 25 is an initiative that encourages anyone who is over 18 but looks under 25 to carry acceptable ID when they want to buy alcohol, such as a card bearing the PASS (the government-backed Proof of Age Standards Scheme)


hologram, a photocard driving licence or a passport. It builds on the Challenge 21 campaign introduced by the British Beer and Pub Association in 2005, which represents the beer and pub sector. It is now run by RASG, which represents alcohol retailers. BHETA chief operating officer Will Jones said: “One of the areas of consensus at our workshop was that a standardised system of knife labelling, which could be adopted universally by suppliers, could be of help to retailers.


“We therefore approached


RASG to investigate the potential for using the existing Challenge 25 concept. We hope to be announcing an equivalent to Challenge 25 for the kitchen knife sector very soon.”


G&Tea Cocktail gift set by Root7


Forma House to distribute Root7


Goldings of Bedford says goodbye


deep and sad regret that Goldings of Bedford Ltd has no choice but to run a closing down sale and to cease trading. “As many of our loyal


Independent hardware and housewares retailer Goldings of Bedford is set to close after trading on the Bedfordshire town’s high street for 152 years. Announcing the news on


Facebook on July 8, the Goldings team said: ‘It is with


customers are aware, we have been struggling for a while now, and the footfall on the High Street is now pretty much non-existent. ‘We have tried to stay


relevant over our 152-year history (including the Boer, First and Second World Wars plus the Great Depression) but today’s internet society - and other stores which provide the same products as us but


cheaper because they are multi-national companies - have made it impossible to continue.


“This has not been an easy decision; we have held on for as long as we can. “The reality is, however, we just cannot sustain our product lines and our service for so few customers. We are devastated.’


Goldings of Bedford first opened its doors in 1867. In September 2017 the business, bought by husband and wife team Kate and Chris Temple in 2015, marked its 150th birthday with a party.


Forma House has been appointed as the exclusive distributor of the Root7 brand to independent retailers and small chains in the UK.


Root7 managing director Rob Ingram commented: “We’re pleased to announce our new partnership with Forma House. The change in structure makes sense, as Forma House is in a great position to service independent retailers. The main factors that influenced our decision to work with Forma House were its attentive sales team, trade show attendance, excellent logistics and online ordering system.” Based in central London, Root7 was founded in 2011 and supplies multiples including John Lewis, Oliver Bonas, Asos and a wide network of independent garden centres, gift shops and cookshops with its range of hydration products, glassware, barware and ceramics. As Forma House take the reins on UK independent sector distribution, the Root7 team will focus further on its ambitious plans for international expansion.


10 years ago this month in Housewares Magazine…


• Kitchen Craft’s Master Class bakeware, Kuhn Rikon’s coloured paring knives, JWP’s Poach Pod silicone egg poachers and JWP’s Lock&Lock storageware were the best sellers at Cooks At Heart in Lichfield, Lawsons (in Plymouth, Ivybridge, Totnes and Tavistock), Fagans in Cockermouth and UK Cook Shop in Hurstpierpoint respectively.


• Scottish retailer Houseproud of Morningside had just commemorated 25 years of trading in the Edinburgh suburb.


• Housewares chain Amy’s was developing its third London store, on Whetstone’s High Road, as a destination outlet.


• Housewares Magazine’s Mystery Shopper visited Battersea and voted La Cuisiniere as the winner of a survey of the south- west London district’s housewares retailers. It beat Debenhams and Recipease for its high-end offer and thoughtful approach to presentation.


• Housewares supplier Salter teamed up with retailer Argos to support the Let’s Get Cooking initiative, by donating 120 sets of kitchen scales to after-school cooking clubs. Let’s Get Cooking was a five-year £20 million programme managed by The School Fund Trust to set up a network of 5,000 after-school cooking clubs in England.


• A OnePoll survey commissioned by bread flour producer Allinson revealed that ‘money-saving gadgets of yesteryear’ were making a comeback, with sandwich makers, slow cookers and breadmakers taking the top spots in a poll of ‘most useful recession appliances’ that Brits were considering buying or ‘dusting off’.


Source: Housewares Magazine August 2009


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