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ware awa awayonFe way Feb gent


surroundedbyhis fa With 35 years of experience in the


housewares industry, David was an independent sales agent


he took on the post of production His career started in 1977 when based in the south-west.


manager atMulberry, the fafashion


Somerset. In 1984, he joined design company based in


Bristol-based housewares supplier


manager and aftfter a successful T&GWoodware as warehouse


operations director. He stayed period was promoted to


becomingmanaging director of there fofor 15 years, befofore


his own company, Avanti


He spent the next six years Housewares, in 2000.


housewares products to the retail importing and distributing


sector befofore becoming a sales agent in 2007. His portfofolio of


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The DRH Collection, Guzzini and brands included Forma House,


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named Britain’s Best Housewares On February 4, David was Ladelle and Tramontina.


Salesperson at The Housewares Innovation Awards 2019 ceremony, organised by


www.HousewaresLive.net and HousewaresMagazine, in


partnership with Spring Fair. His trophy and certificate was collected on his behalf by JWP sales &marketing director Geoff Hounslea (see page 19).


David’s fafamily have set up an online tribute page in his honour


https:// at


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Housewares retailerDianaGriffithspassedawayawaypeacefullyon January10aſter a long illness.


Diana set up Salamander cookshop at Sherborne


husbandMichael Griffiths in Dorset with her


and ability to choose the Michael said: “Her flair in 1993.


the bedrock of the business fofor 25 years, and her customers proved to be right products fofor


philosophy continues today.


“Diana also embraced online shopping with our pioneering website, which was years ahead of the bigg “A


treatment of staff and customers alike, and her approach to ethical trading.


“Diana is sorelymissed byme, her daughter Anna and her son James, to whomshe was a wonderful wifefe andmother,r, balancing the demands of the business with the love and care needed by a growing fafamily.”


lways fafair, she set very high standards with her er retailers.


om/uk/ k/supporting-the-amazing-


work-in-icu-on-behalf-f-of-f-our-dad. The page reads: ‘We were so grateful fofor the work that


Southmead Hospital Intensive Care Unit did fofor our Dad, so we wanted to raisemoney fofor


Southmead Hospital Charity so they can continue to support patients in need and their


Southmead Hospital Charity fafamilies.’


healthcare services at Southmead raises funds to support the


Hospital and CosshamHospital


Somerset communities.Working Gloucestershire and North and the Bristol, South


patient community, it raises funds therapeutic support staff and the alongside clinical teams,


fofor proj ojects that are beyond the remit of the NHS .


Housewares industryveteran Dav


Though known tomost in the industry through his long involvement with Meyer Group, David started out as a


profefessionalmusician, playing piano withmany leading jazz and blues musicians.


Aftfter some years, he


joined House of Fraser on itsmanagement training programme, and this was fofollowed by periods working in housewares sales fofor brands including Carron, Electrolux, Tower, Husqvarna and Hackman. He joinedMeyer Group in 1986 and worked fofor fferent roles fofor the company, initially


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as one of the UK fofounding teamof just three sales andmarketingmanagement and latterly as sales director. In that role, he helped transfoformthe business significantly fromhumble beginnings to becoming a top supplier to the UKmarketplace. Aftftermoving to take over export sales, he set up his own business in 2007, looking aftfter export sales ffo


or not onlyMeyer Group but fo Ty Nordicware and Imperial.


for Typhoon, Challs,


He was also involved withmarket reports fofor UKTI (UK Trade & Investment) - a government department working with businesses based in the UK to assist their success in internationalmarkets, and with overseas investors looking to the UK as an investment destination - now the Department fofor International Trade.


David was a boardmember of the British


Hardware & HousewaresManufafacturers Association (now British Home Enhancement Trade


Association) and president fofor two years. He was also a director of the Cranfield University Management Association.


He retired in 2013 but a year later he was back in the industry in an export consultancy role, aftfter frequently being asked by international companies fofor help in placing products and distributors together.


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Source:HousewaresMagazine April/l/May


/May 2014


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