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Blanchard’s wins Home Hardware’s cookshop window dressing contest


Wholesaler Home Hardware has revealed that Blanchard’s Home Hardware at Bideford in Devon has won its cookshop window dressing competition for the second consecutive year.


Snape & Sons of Cheadle Hulme in GreaterManchester scooped the runner-up prize. Home Hardware intro duced the contest to support its Cookshop Catalogue and to inspire retailers to create eye- catching window displays. All Home Hardware retailers were


invited to participate and entries were


independent panel. judged by an


Home Hardware said the overall


standard of entry was exceptionally high and


allmembers who too it would like to thank


part in th e competition.


• A prize draw held at Home Hardware’s Autumn Trade Show on September 17 at NAEC Stoneleigh in


Warwickshire raised £350 to be split equally


between charities Cancer Research and Rainy Day Trust. Dishmatic goes pink for charity dispensing fillable and


refillable washing up tools has collaborated with its charity partner Against Breast Cancer to raise funds and awareness during Breast Cancer AwarenessMonth.


EasyDo Products has launched a range of limited edition pink Dishmatic products for Breast Cancer AwarenessMonth in October.


2019marks the third year that themanufacturer of


ava a e throughout October. The products have been designed to further promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month and encourage consumers to donate to a breast cancer charity.


said: “We’re delighted director of EasyDo Pr


Gavin Braine, commercial oducts, to


EasyDo Products will donate £10,000 to the charity and the limited edition pink Dishmatic handle and Glide brush will be il bl


relaunch this limited dition pink Dishmatic in collaboration with Against Breast Cancer during this year’s Breast Cancer AwarenessMonth. “We’re excited to reach even more consumers this year by turning the packaging of our Dishmatic, Glide Brush and Scrubbee pink, driving


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awareness for Breast Cancer AwarenessM t h and our chosen charity.


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“At EasyDo we’re proud to be donating £10,000 to this incredible charity that works tirelessly on groundbreaking research to improve detection, treatment and increase survival aft diagnosis.”


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New home for Rainy Day Trust


The Rainy Day Trust hasmoved fromthe Jewellery Quarter in Birminghamto new offices in Stoke Prior near Bromsgrov e. The industry charity said: ‘Since 2015 we have quadrupled the number of people that we help every year and we aimto grow furthe developing providing a


broader range of help tomeet new programmes and r in the coming years,


the complex needs of our beneficiaries. This growthmeans that we outgrew our accommodation and needed tomove. ‘We would like to say a huge thank you to BHETA, KitchenCraft,ft Centurion Europ e, Burg-Wachter and Stax Trade Centres for donating the furniture, safe, signage and office items, and also to Calor for the manpower tomake themove go so smoothly.’


Rainy Day’s Trust’s new address and telephone number is: 8 The Courtyard, Harris Business Park, Hanbury Road, Stoke Prior, B60 4DJ; 01527 872545.


10 years ago this month in Housewares Magazine…


Source: HousewaresMagazine September/


r/October 2009


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