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Bricks and mortar showrooms: adding value to the High Street

Despite the ongoing popularity of online shopping, KBB retailers are fighting back with something the internet can never offer – product knowledge, customer service, and dedicated after-sales service.

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Basildon and Billericay: REVISITED

Our mystery shopper first visited these two Essex towns in 2001 and again in 2009. Now Chris Frankland visits the towns again to talk to two of the original retailers plus a local merchant and a brand new bathroom showroom

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Bira reassured by new UK retail sales figures

The British Independent Retailers Association (Bira) has responded to new figures recently released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the UK retail sales rebound in January.

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Can we save our high streets?

The Government has pledged its commitment to rejuvenate Britain’s ailing high streets after years of decline. Vicki Evans explores its policy paper Build Back Better High Streets and investigates what it might mean for KBB retailers…

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Footfall set to shift towards high streets when non-essential stores reopen, says research

As retailers possibly begin to open UK stores from the beginning of June at the earliest, they can expect to see a…

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Victoria Plum receives £1.75m from rival over trademark battle

Victoria Plum received £1.75 million from rival Victorian Plumbing earlier this year after winning its court battle over trademark infringement.

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Is Wigmore Street on the edge?

Two kitchen retailers in central London have told kbbreview that business rate and rent increases were taking their toll on their Wigmore Street showrooms.

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EXCLUSIVE: Roxor boss: ‘We need to make Better Bathrooms profitable quickly’

Roxor chief executive Dave Cullen told kbbreview that struggling Better Bathrooms would need to “turn itself around on its own” but that its new owner would offer guidance.

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Summer ‘hangover’ for September retail sales

The summer spending spree came to a juddering halt in September with retail sales falling sharply last month.

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Brexit: the view from Wigmore Street

How are some of the capital’s leading showrooms coping with increasing market uncertainty?

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Wandsworth Bathstore caught up in shoot-out

A Bathstore on a street in south-west London was caught up in a shoot-out this week that left a teenager seriously injured.

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Is IKEA move latest threat to kitchen retail?

The high street kitchen showroom could soon be staring down the barrel of its latest threat: IKEA, warns Matt Walton, senior data analyst at GlobalData

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KitchenAid to offer retailers bespoke training

KitchenAid, the luxury appliance manufacturer, has introduced bespoke training opportunities to support its partner retailers at its Experience Store in London’s Wigmore…

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IKEA takes home project service onto high street

IKEA has said it will open a mini-store in central London as part of a new strategy that will bring the Swedish flat pack furniture firm onto British high streets.

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Elizabethan business rates a ‘busted flush’, says FSB

FSB’s Martin McTague on why a radical reform of the business rates system can’t come soon enough

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INTERVIEW: Bill Grimsey

Bill Grimsey has launched his second review of the high street and town centres. He tells us why and what needs to change this time around.

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Death of the high street

RFK’s Trevor Scott on how he has built up his business while many high-street retail names have failed.

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InSinkErator launches new collection for showrooms

Insinkerator has unveiled its new Showroom Collection, which is only available to independent high-street retailers.

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Bricks and mortar showrooms: adding value to the High Street

Basildon and Billericay: REVISITED

Bira reassured by new UK retail sales figures

Can we save our high streets?

Footfall set to shift towards high streets when non-essential stores reopen, says research

Victoria Plum receives £1.75m from rival over trademark battle

Is Wigmore Street on the edge?

EXCLUSIVE: Roxor boss: ‘We need to make Better Bathrooms profitable quickly’

Summer ‘hangover’ for September retail sales

Brexit: the view from Wigmore Street

Wandsworth Bathstore caught up in shoot-out

Is IKEA move latest threat to kitchen retail?

KitchenAid to offer retailers bespoke training

IKEA takes home project service onto high street

Elizabethan business rates a ‘busted flush’, says FSB

INTERVIEW: Bill Grimsey

Death of the high street

InSinkErator launches new collection for showrooms

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