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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and he’s out and about again, this time in Kirby-in-Ashfield just outside Nottingham.
Andy is meeting brothers Scott and Ben Slater and their company Kesseler. A really interesting British kitchen manufacturer AND retailer. Started about 15 years ago as a straight supplier, they moved into their own retail franchising brand just a few years ago and now have nearly 20 showrooms across the country.
As we have discussed on this very podcast before franchising is really building a significant momentum – Kutchenhaus, Nolte, Schmidt, and Magnet are just a few but Kesseler is slightly different as it is distinctly British.
But that’s not all, as we will here, they also run Online-Bedrooms.co.uk – an increasingly successful brand that sells fitted bedroom furniture, well, online.
So how have they done it? What’s their strategy? How do you build a retail brand from scratch? And how many Kesseler showrooms do they actually want?
Such an interesting story from two real forward-thinkers!