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This is the kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media. In March 2020, when it became clear that the coronavirus had the potential to severely affect the fortunes of the kbb sector we launched The kbbreview Podcast. The initial aim of the show was to talk directly to leading retailers and suppliers about how they were managing the situation, evaluating the market, and predicting the future during a bizarre and unprecedented crisis.We knew that a podcast was the perfect medium for a time when peopl ...
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The Kitchen & Bathroom Design Podcast from Taylist Media. We're the home of kbbreview, Kitchens Bedrooms & Bathrooms and Studio magazines so, in theory, we mostly either know what we're talking about or know someone who does. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast and, for those keeping meticulous records this is episode six of season 13. Your host is Andy Davies, and we're getting all nostalgic in this one as we mark 40 years of kbbreview. Our very own George Dean has been having a chat with a couple of top retailers, who have both been in the game for more than 40 years, to…
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In the second of our very special episodes all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025, we catch up with our Podcast Partner Sonas Bathrooms and a pair of their retailers to look at the importance of the supplier-retailer partnership. Hosted by kbbreview's Matt Baker, our special guests are: Richard Sloan, the CEO of Sonas Bathrooms Becky P…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, and this is the final episode of our special three-part series we're calling 'Changemakers'. It's all in association with our very good friends at Hettich and together we're meeting people or companies that are truly forging their own path in the UK kitchen and bathroom sector. They're shaping opinions, trends and …
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is the second episode of our special three-part series we're calling 'Changemakers'. It's all in association with our very good friends at Hettich and together we're meeting people or companies that are truly forging their own path in the UK kitchen and bathroom sector. They're shaping opinions, trends and bus…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and this is the first episode of a special three-part series we're calling 'Changemakers'. It's all in association with our very good friends at Hettich and together we're meeting people or companies that are truly forging their own path in the UK kitchen and bathroom sector. They're shaping opinions, trends and bus…
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The kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025 are open for entries and this is the first of our special monthly awards podcast bonus episodes. We'll be following the whole process between now and the event in April - including exclusively revealing the shortlist of finalists just before Christmas. In this first episode we get down to basics - what are …
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies, this is Episode Two of Season 13 and we've got a great one for you today as we look into the world of distribution with one of the biggest names in the sector - Waterline. We have a great interview with Michael Marriott, who's the new CEO, and sales director Rob Taylor who's chalked up an …
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BONUS: Rising Star September, Georgia Astley
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is editor-at-large Rebecca Nottingham and this is another of our very special Rising Star episodes where we meet the upcoming superstars of kitchen and bathroom retail. Between August 2024 and March 2025 we’ll be picking a monthly Rising Star to feature in the magazine, online and this very podcast. Those…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode One of Season 13. For this very special episode we're meeting the founder of one of the industry's most enigmatic companies - Paul O'Leary from deVOL. He and his team have managed to establish the hugely successful deVOL as a true lifestyle brand that, yes, will make you…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast and this summer special episode dropping right in the middle of August. We've got a cracking whole new season starting at the beginning of September but today's episode was just too good, too relevant and too insightful to wait until then. Now we all know that the market is, at best, flat and, at worst, way below th…
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Welcome to a new series of episodes brought to you by The kbbreview Podcast. Your host is kbbreview editor-at-large Rebecca Nottingham for these monthly episodes meeting the Rising Stars of the kbb independent retailer sector, brought to you in association with Blum. In this first episode we’re meeting our Rising Star for August, Melissa Halliday f…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Eight of Season 12. You may remember that, all the way back in episode two a few weeks ago, we looked at the ever-present stalwart of the kbb showroom - the brochure. You can listen to that one here. This week we're looking at the brochure's ever-present companion on the…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, this is a special bonus episode counting down to one of the biggest events of the year - the InstallerSHOW 2024. It's from the 25th to the 27th of June, that's Tuesday to Thursday, and thousands of visitors will descend on the NEC in Birmingham to see the latest products, mix with peers and hear the latest advice a…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and this is PartTWO of a special two-parter reporting from our very first Retail Safari. A Retail Safari is a walking tour of interesting and innovative retail stores and environments and we're taking a group of independent kitchen and bathroom retailers out of this industry and hoping to expand horizons and provoke…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and this is Part ONE of a special two-parter reporting from our very first Retail Safari. A Retail Safari is a walking tour of interesting and innovative retail stores and environments and we're taking a group of independent kitchen and bathroom retailers out of this industry and hoping to expand horizons and provok…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies as always and this is episode five of season 12. Today we're looking at a subject that has been completely eye-opening for us It's an issue affecting installers and we confess we had no idea just how big a problem it is until we started looking into it. And that is…tool theft. It's about as…
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BONUS PODCAST: Board room - designing the finishes that set the trends
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Welcome to a very special bonus episode of the kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies, and today we're looking at one of the areas of kitchen design that doesn't get the recognition it deserves, and that's the panel finishes that make up the furniture. When you actually think about it there's hundreds of colours, textures, grains and…
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How to be a successful retailer - PART TWO
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and this week it's Part Two of our How to be a Successful Retailer two-parter. Andy has been catching up with winners from this year's kbbreview Retail & Design Awards to pick their brains about running successful and award-winning businesses. Last week was a fascinating conversat…
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How to be a successful retailer - PART ONE
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This is Part One of a two-parter that will conclude next week where we talk to winners from the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2024 to get under their skin, hear their stories and see what makes their businesses successful. Next week, we'll be meeting our Kitchen Retailer of the Year - Laings in Inverurie - and our Bathroom Retailer of the Year -…
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This week's episode is all about that staple fixture of showrooms and their relationship with the brands they sell - brochures. What do retailers and designers actually use them for? What do they say about the brand? Do suppliers assume they get given out to every potential customer who comes through the door? Are too many simply thrown away and wa…
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Today we're looking at that tricky yet often desirable symbol of growth for an independent kbb retailer and that's …..the second showroom. The vast majority of kbb independents operate out of one showroom, but many often seriously think about another. It's an obvious way to expand the business but there are plenty of cons to go with the long list o…
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If you were running for Prime Minister...
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this may be the last episode of Season 11 but we've got a couple of very interesting bits for you First up we're talk about manifestos - we all know there's going to be a General Election this year so if you were running for Prime Minister, what would be in YOURS to help kbb businesses?…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and this week we're looking at the communication between suppliers and their retailers. Since Covid there has been massive shift in how this is done, the traditional rep-on-the-road model has morphed into a hybrid of some area sales managers and a lot more emails, portals, Zoom, T…
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Welcome to another bonus episode of The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and at the kbb show last week he caught up with Richard Sloan, the CEO of Sonas Bathrooms. It was their time exhibiting at the show AND, of course, they were also our Podcast Partner for the 20204 kbbreview Retail & Design Awards. So that's two greatest reasons to t…
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KBB SHOW PODCAST: The kbbreview Award winners!
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is another of our special episodes from kbb Birmingham, although to be more precise this one is coming from the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2024. Host Andy Davies found a relatively quiet spot to talk to you but we had around 900 people filling the room celebrating the very best of the industry so it was …
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Welcome to the second of your special kbbreview Podcast episodes direct from kbb Birmingham 2024 It's been another really busy show today, with lots of very interesting conversations on and off the record , including some fantastic gossip which we couldn't possible repeat and some genuinely honest assessments about the health of the market. Today w…
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It's the first of our daily episodes direct from kbb Birmingham 2024 and there's one question on everyone's lips - how's business? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies, and this is Episode 5 of Season 11. This is a great episdoe as we've got a topic today that will dazzle all your senses. That's because it's all about, well, dazzling all the senses. It's obvious that your showroom needs to look great, but do you ever think about how it smells, how it soun…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and another of our special bonus episodes all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2024. And this is the last one of these we'll be doing before the event itself. This is coming out on Wednesday, February 28 which the means the awards is on Monday. All very exciting indeed and what better way to round off this…
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Bathroom Brands - staying resilient in a tough market
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and another very special bonus episode as we're talking to Stephen Ewer, the CEO of Bathroom Brands. Always great to talk to him and we'll be getting his view on the health of the market, the biggest factors affecting its growth and, more specifically, what plans and strategies Bathrooms Brands to get the most out o…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and we're keeping the pre-KBB Show podcast bonanza coming with this - the100% official Episode Four of Season Eleven. And we've got a great guest on today talking about a subject that is so important, so relevant and so interesting that we really should discuss it more - and that's how reta…
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Welcome to another special episode of The kbbreview Podcast all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2024. We're counting down to the big event itself on Monday, March the 4th with these special shows and after last week's conversation with some of our design category judges, today we're talking to a couple of our business category judges. Wh…
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Welcome to another special bonus episode of The kbreview Podcast and today we're getting a bit of a sneak preview of one of the most high-profile exhibitors at kbb Birmingham in a couple of weeks time. And that's Cyncly. Now Cyncly may be a new name to the kbb Birmingham exhibition halls but the latest versions of the products it is showing have be…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast and this very special bonus episode. It's a great one for anyone interested in the latest trends and products in kitchen, bedroom and bathroom design as we'll be talking to Aimee Fletcher - the Decor and Product Manager for Egger. We're going to find out all about her new ranges, how she gets her inspiration and ide…
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Welcome to The kbbreview podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Three of Season 11 and today we're revisiting one of the biggest topics in this industry and that's installation and apprenticeships. It's a complicated subject and that can often switch people off but, as we'll hear today, the ageing workforce could see half of installe…
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Welcome to another very special episode of The kbbreview Podcast all about The kbbreview Retail & Design Award 2024! Your host is Andy Davies and give or take a day or so we are just three weeks away from the big ceremony on Monday, March the 4th in Birmingham. We're as excited as we are absolutely terrified as we'll be welcoming about 900 of the i…
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This is a very special episode of The kbbreview Podcast. As I'm sure you know kbb Birmingham is fast approaching us at the start of March - it's the biggest UK show dedicated to all things kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms so today we're chatting to the exhibition's sales director Jon Johnston - he'll be telling us why the show has never been more r…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Part Two of our look at the results of The kbbreview Retailer Survey 2024. It's our biggest ever survey of independent kitchen and bathroom retailers and this week we're be looking at some of the biggest challenges retailers face - like the wider economy, finding good fitters an…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and the start of a brand new season - Season 11 to be exact - and this is going to be a great one because we're building up to kbb Birmingham and the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2024. And we're kicking it all off with a two-parter looking at the results of the kbbreview Retailer Survey 2024. It's our biggest ev…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is a very, VERY special episode. First of all, believe it or not, this is Episode 200 of the show. That's right, 200 episodes of The kbbreview Podcast dedicated to all things independent kitchen and bathroom retail. Thank you so much to everyone who's tuned in, thank you to all the…
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Welcome to another very special bonus episode of The kbbreview Podcast all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2024! Yes, the entries are closed and the first stage of judging is complete and that means the reveal of the shortlist for 2024 is imminent. In fact, this episode is coming out on Monday, December the 11th as a little precursor for…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast and this the final episode of our Insight 2024 series of conversations with industry leaders. At a time when the economic outlook is uncertain at best, what lessons can we learn from 2023 and what are the educated guesses about what may happen in 2024. Where are the opportunities? Where are the pitfalls? And where w…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast and this another episode of our Insight 2024 series of conversations with industry leaders. At a time when the economic outlook is uncertain at best, what lessons can we learn from 2023 and what are the educated guesses about what may happen in 2024. Where are the opportunities? Where are the pitfalls? And where wil…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast and this another episode of our Insight 2024 series of conversations with industry leaders. At a time when the economic outlook is uncertain at best, what lessons can we learn from 2023 and what are the educated guesses about what may happen in 2024. Where are the opportunities? Where are the pitfalls? And where wil…
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INSIGHT 2024 - Simeon Gabriel, Hettich UK
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast and this first episode of our Insight 2024 series of conversations with industry leaders. At a time when the economic outlook is uncertain at best, what lessons can we learn from 2023 and what are the educated guess about what may happen in 2024. Where are the opportunities? Where are the pitfalls? And where will we…
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What's going on with supplier communication?
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Seven of Season Ten, And this week we're talking all the communication retailers get from their suppliers. Now clearly this was a massive issue during Covid and the supply problems that accompanied the huge boom in business. But how has it changed, has it got better or w…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode Six of Season Ten and this week we've got a very special guest - Johnny Grey. Johnny is, as you probably know, one of the most high profile designers in the kitchen arena and has been for decades. His boundless enthusiasm for design and the role the kitchen has in our lives, in society and in histor…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is episode five of season ten. And today's episode is all about choice - To be or not to be? Should I stay or should I go? The hokey cokey... Deciding between one thing and another is hard enough but when customers are buying a new kitchen or bathroom they have thousands of possibl…
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Welcome to the kbbreview podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is episode four of season five. So how's business with you at the moment? That's a hard question to answer isn't it? There are so many variables and uncertainties that being definitive and forecasting even a short way into the future is really, really tricky. A couple of episodes a…
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AWARDS BONUS: Top tips from reigning champions
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Welcome to another special BONUS episode of The kbbreview Podcast all about The kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2024. We're running this special series between now and the big awards event in March and it's all courtesy of our 2024 Awards Podcast Partner - Sonas Bathrooms. In this episode we'll be meeting two of our big winners from the 2023 award…
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