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Moving with the times
Clare Turner catches up withSarah Wood, joint managing director of CHA Retailer of the Year winner Trevor Mottram cookshop
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pecialist cookshop Trevor Mottram has been trading since 1975 in the Kent town of Tunbridge Wells. The outlet is housed in a Georgian five-
storey property in the Kent town’s most famous shopping area, The Pantiles: a tree-lined colonnaded walkway of 30-plus units of independent retailers. The 1,200sq ft shop is run by the husband and wife team Sarah and Alan Wood. Sarah
joined in1998 and Alan came on board in 2000. “Trevor Mottram was my uncle,” Sarah
explains. “We moved down from Cambridgeshire 22 years ago, went round for dinner, got drunk and bought a shop!” At the time, Sarah was working in
recruitment and Alan was a finance director, “but I grew up in a restaurant so I’ve always liked food and nice equipment that makes cooking food easier,” she says. “I didn’t know anything about retail though -
and I’m not sure I do now. But I like shopping - well, I used to. I like it somewhat less now because I’ve normally had enough of the general public by the time I‘ve left here.” Despite Sarah’s modest claim, over the years
the business has garnered a clutch of industry awards, from ‘Britain’s Best Cookshop’ in Housewares Magazine’s Britain Best Retailer Awards in 2010 to the CHA (Cookshop & Housewares Association) Retailer of the Year title in 2017. And the shop and Sarah herself reached the
finals of The Housewares Innovation Awards 2018 in the categories of Best Independent
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• Sarah was delighted when she heard the news that Trevor Mottram has scooped the CHA Retailer of the Year 2017 award. “It’s always nice to be recognised,” she says. The CHA (Cookshop & Housewares
Association) has been supporting cookshop and housewares retailers since 1994. It is a specialist division of bira (British Independent Retailers Association). Bira said: “Being in its 43rd year of retailing,
we were thrilled to see our long-standing member Trevor Mottram take home this accolade. “Over the past year it has rebranded and introduced a range of own-brand products. It is a real example of independent retailing success.”
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