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ur digital platform www.HousewaresLive.net is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, we’ve relaunched the website with a


new look and contemporary feel. As well as refreshing the design, the site now includes easier navigation, better functionality and is more compatible with mobile devices so it can be viewed on the move. In addition to modernising the website, we have embraced digital


Monday February 5 2018 THE NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM, BIRMINGHAM


HousewaresLive.net turns ten


Housewares Awards brings home bronze O


communication and are now on social media. www.HousewaresLive.net is still the only business-to-business website


for housewares retailers and their suppliers in the UK - and it’s updated every working day. In 2016 we had 25,400 users, along with 34,823 visits and 65,238 page


views. In 2017 we aim to see even more, so please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.


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he Housewares Innovation Awards is the bronze winner of the ‘Best Awards held alongside a Conference or Exhibition’ category of the inaugural 2017 Awards Awards.


Organised by Global Conference Network (GCN), the 2017 Awards


Awards recognise excellence and exceptional quality in the UK awards sector. The bronze accolade was for our 2016 event, which was held in


Birmingham during the Spring Fair. It was organised by Datateam Business Media, which owns Housewares Magazine and its digital partner www.HousewaresLive.net, in conjunction with Spring Fair. The news was announced at a ceremony on May 12 at Plaisterers’ Hall


in the City of London. Commenting on the achievement, Spring Fair portfolio director Nick


Davison said: “This is a well-deserved accolade for an event that has gone from strength to strength since moving alongside Spring Fair in 2016. “We enjoy a close, mutually beneficial, relationship with the organiser


as the awards’ attendees are also important Spring Fair visitors. We look forward to supporting further growth in 2018 and beyond.” The Housewares Innovation Awards 2018 will take place on the


evening of Monday February 5 at The National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham, during the Spring Fair at the NEC


Obituary: John Price OBE J


ohn Price OBE, chairman of housewares supplier Arthur Price, died on April 26. He was 88.


The company has


released the following statement: “John was the third generation of the Price family to be at the helm of the internationally- recognised cutlery firm. Arthur John Mason


Price was born in Birmingham in December 1928 and educated at Repton School in Derbyshire. As a young man he saw active service in Greece with the Durham Light Infantry in 1947, and received a commission in the Worcestershire Regiment the following year. He joined the family firm in 1949, aged 21,


and took courses in accountancy, design, tool-making and production engineering to learn the trade. Over the next few years, John gained


experience running Arthur Price subsidiaries and in 1959 (aged 31) he was made managing director. The 1960s saw John participate in numerous


trips abroad including Australia, Hong Kong, Korea and Moscow promoting British business on behalf of various trade organisations including the Government and the CBI. Through the early 1970s, John


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masterminded the creation of the largest flatware unit in England at Saltley in Birmingham, and became chairman of Arthur Price when his father stepped down in 1974. In 1977, John personally designed and


exclusively supplied cutlery for the supersonic aircraft Concorde – and in the same year, the company was granted the Royal Warrant by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The mark of a successful businessman is his


ability to steer his business through times of austerity. The cutlery industry, along with many others, was badly affected by the recession of 1981 and Arthur Price was not immune. John led a major reorganisation of the


business, shifting its operation towards retail from manufacturing. The Saltley site was closed, the Sheffield operation was enlarged, and the company established headquarters in Lichfield. There are still manufacturing operations in


Sheffield and Birmingham, and the Lichfield office manages the worldwide operations of this 200-strong company. John was admitted to various guilds and


received numerous awards over the years. He was a Freeman of the Goldsmiths Company London, a Freeman of the Cutlers Company Hallamshire, received the Business Sponsorship to the Arts award in 1982 and in 1986 was presented with the ‘Think British Personality of the Year Award’ by Jaguar chairman Sir John Egan.


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He served as chairman of Crimestoppers in


Staffordshire and was chairman of the Prince’s Youth Business Trust. In 1993 John was elected president of the British Cutlery and Silverware Association and he also served as the president of the Federation of European Cutlers. In 1988 Arthur Price was granted the Royal


Warrant by appointment to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. John also worked tirelessly for charities and


voluntary organisations. He supported Lions International, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and St Giles Hospice in Lichfield. Outside of business, Mr Price enjoyed


playing and watching cricket and holidays with his wife Susie. He was also a jazz fanatic and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the music form and enjoyed smoking cigars. His eldest son Simon, chief executive of the


family firm, said: “He led a crusade most of his life for the cutlery industry, and when he set his mind to something, he did his best to achieve it. “Words people have used to describe him


include gracious, gentleman, inspirational, lovely and a loyal friend. He was a great grandpa and very proud of his grandchildren.” In addition to sons Simon and Nigel, John


was a proud grandfather to James, Tori and Harry, William, Elizabeth and Yara and stepfa- ther to Jonathan. He is also survived by his sis- ter June, aged 92.


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