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Grow your business by learning more about the worktop sector

Ross Stewart, UK senior sales manager for Neolith explains how retailers and designers can enhance their business through a greater knowledge and understanding of worktop fabrication

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Garry Milligan: How can we ensure our designers are up to scratch?

Frustrated with the lack of an industry body to officially certify designers, Garry Milligan, CEO of the FKBD, explains why the industry should get on board

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The art of selling luxury

Alexandra Singer, the UK managing director and creative director for THG Paris, explains what selling ‘luxury’ products really means and why it requires a special skillset

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Holte: sustainability through design

Fiona and Tom Ginnett, the owners of Hackney-based kitchen studio Holte, are trying to educate consumers and the wider industry, on sustainability through design. Rebecca Nottingham went to meet them to find out more…

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Compusoft + 2020 announces winners of Global Inspiration Contest

Compusoft + 2020, has revealed the winners of its Global Inspiration Contest for kitchen, bathroom and office designers

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V-Zug set to open London studio

Premium Swiss appliance brand V-Zug has revealed details of its plan to open a flagship studio on London’s prestigious Wigmore Street this Autumn.

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Kitchens International | Francis Waite, Scott McLean and Gary Gourlay

Kitchens International has made several new appointments, including a new operations manager and two new sales designers.

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B&Q to recruit 800 new in-store designers

DIY retailer B&Q has said it has started the recruitment process that will add 800 kitchen and bathroom designers to its showrooms around the country.

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SPECIAL FEATURE: Freelance Designers

Are freelance designers loose cannons or an industry asset? We look at what it takes to go freelance.

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Show them the money

Searle and Taylor MD Darren Taylor believes that designing kitchens is an art and that designers deserve to be rewarded.

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‘Employing a designer who can’t sell is pointless,’ says retailer

A retailer has hit out at pay structures for designers, claiming it is pointless employing a designer who can’t sell.

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‘You need a degree to design kitchens,’ claims retailer

Anyone designing a kitchens, bedrooms or bathrooms should have a degree, one designer has argued.

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Where would we be without training?

Damian Walters, chief executive of the BiKBBI, explains why a unified approach to training is the way forward.

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PROFILE: Todd Bracher

Designer Todd Bracher, the creative brain behind the Das Haus installation, tells us about his approach to the project and his views on the future of design in the KBB industry.

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Designers on commission will never be respected, claims retailer

Designers will never have the same respect as architects and interior designers while regarded as salespeople.

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‘Commission-only schemes belong in the past,’ claim kitchen designers

Snug Kitchens’ owner has criticised commission-only pay structures.

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Brighton designer wins Ripples Design of the Year

Brighton-based designer Emma Betts has won the coveted award for “Design of the Year”.

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I am amazed how poor many designers are

Diane Berry of Diane Berry Kitchens claims retailers lack design training and designers need to raise their game to stay ahead.

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Grow your business by learning more about the worktop sector

Garry Milligan: How can we ensure our designers are up to scratch?

The art of selling luxury

Holte: sustainability through design

Compusoft + 2020 announces winners of Global Inspiration Contest

V-Zug set to open London studio

Kitchens International | Francis Waite, Scott McLean and Gary Gourlay

B&Q to recruit 800 new in-store designers

SPECIAL FEATURE: Freelance Designers

Show them the money

‘Employing a designer who can’t sell is pointless,’ says retailer

‘You need a degree to design kitchens,’ claims retailer

Where would we be without training?

PROFILE: Todd Bracher

Designers on commission will never be respected, claims retailer

‘Commission-only schemes belong in the past,’ claim kitchen designers

Brighton designer wins Ripples Design of the Year

I am amazed how poor many designers are

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