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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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Want to know what really goes into planning the perfect kitchen or bathroom? Welcome to How To Buy A Kitchen Or Bathroom, the podcast brought to you by thesethreerooms.com and Kitchens Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine. Whether you’re just starting to think about what your dream space could look like, or are right in the thick of planning, or you simply want to know how to confidently buy those all-important fixtures, fittings and finishing touches – from hobs and lighting to a freestanding bath ...
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Welcome to a new season of The kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and we're kicking it off with a very special and exclusive interview with Dr Reinhard Zinkann - one of the two co-owners of Miele. Andy met him at the global appliance giant's new Experience Centre showroom bang in the middle of Wigmore Street in London. Dr Zinkann…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and the first of TWO very special episodes coming live from Blackpool and the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025. Since we launched these awards back in September we've been putting out special monthly awards episodes talking to judges, organisers and finalists and it's all thanks to our 2025 Awards Podcast Partn…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and the first of TWO very special episodes coming live from Blackpool and the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025. Since we launched these awards back in September we've been putting out special monthly awards episodes talking to judges, organisers and finalists and it's all thanks to our 2025 Awards Podcast Partn…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is a very special bonus episode of the show where we'll be finding out all about our Adopted Retailer Partner Alku, the new range of kitchens from Getley. In our usual episode that came out yesterday you will have heard our latest catch-up with our Adopter Retailers themselves so t…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode 9 of Season 14. And we've been really looking forward to this episode, as we're catching up with our Adopted Retailers. In the magazine every month, we've been following the fortunes of three kbb retailers with three very different backgrounds, experiences and plans for …
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Eight of Season 14. We're heading into the long Easter weekend of course, which will be a nice break before the madness of next begins as we jet off to Blackpool for the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards next Thursday. And by 'jet off' I mean the train. You don't usually …
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The cost of being an independent retailer
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies as always. Today we're looking at life as an independent retailer - are rises in the costs of running your business such as national insurance and business rates simply pricing you out of the real market? What is the future of the High Street? How are consumers changing? What is the role of…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode Six of Season 14 and your host is managing editor Andy Davies. Today we're looking at an area that gets to the heart of what good design is all about. Understanding and interpreting the needs of those that are going to use the kitchen or bathroom every day is a vital part of any brief - and that inc…
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AWARDS BONUS 7: All about the Blackpool Tower...
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Welcome to another very special episode of The kbbreview Podcast all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025. The event is now less than a month away! On Thursday, April 24th hundreds of the industry's leading retailers, designers, suppliers, influencers and opinion-formers will arrive in Blackpool for the biggest evening of the year. As th…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode 5 of Season 14 - which means we're officially halfway through the series. This week we're delving into a subject that, slowly but surely, is becoming more common - freelance KBB designers. They're not retailers in the classic definition of the word, they don't have showr…
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Welcome to another special Rising Star episode of The kbbreview Podcast. We’ve teamed up with Blum to find the upcoming stars of kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom retail and this is our eighth and final Rising Star for 2025 - Aidan Parish, a fitter at Lima Kitchens in Milton Keynes. When Aidan joined the Lima Kitchens team around 18 months ago, it was…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Four of Season 14. At kbbreview, we talk to a lot of retailers and if there's one lament that comes up again and again it's that they donʼt make a decent margin on appliances. So if the margins are so tight for what is a big part of the customer's budget, is it really wo…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Three of Season 14. Today we're looking at something which asks a very difficult existential question of independent KBB retailers - do you ever think what might happen if you got into financial difficulty and couldn't finish your clients project? In particular, we're lo…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host today 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 all under the age of 30. Between August 2024 and March 2025 we’re picking a monthly Rising Star to feature in the magazine, online a…
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Interview: Sharon Wallis, MD, Poggenpohl UK
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies as always and this is the second episode of Season 14. This week we've got a great, and very candid, interview with Sharon Wallis, the UK head of one of most iconic and longest-established kitchen furniture brands you can find - Poggenpohl. It has a long pedigree, of course, established as …
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Welcome to The Kbbreview Podcast and another special episode all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025. Your host as always is Matt Baker and today we’re going to shine a spotlight on the design categories and take another look into the minds of our design judges to see what they thought of this year’s entries, what themes they spotted, a…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and after a Christmas break that has somehow reached the end of February we are back with a brand new season. It's Season 14 and we'll be with you right up to the end of April but in this first episode we're taking a look at an issue thornier than a garden full of brambles - and that's paying for displays. Who do YO…
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BONUS: Rising Star January, Victoria Mich
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and another of our very special Rising Star episodes where we meet the upcoming superstars of kitchen and bathroom retail all under the age of 30. Your host is editor-at-large Rebecca Nottingham and between August 2024 and March 2025 we’re picking a monthly Rising Star to feature in the magazine, online and this ver…
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Welcome to the latest of our special awards episodes of The kbbreview Podcast all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025. Last month, right before the festive break, we announced the shortlist and so today we’re talking to some of those finalists to hear a little bit about why they entered and what it means to them ahead of the second stag…
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Welcome to the very special episode of The kbbreview Podcast where we will reveal the full shortlist for the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025. Your hosts are kbbreview's Matt Baker and Andrew Davies and they will exclusively announce who the finalists are for all our design and retail categories. YOU won't get this list anywhere else until nex…
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BONUS: Rising Star December, Isabelle Huxford
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is editor-at-large Rebecca Nottingham for 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 eight m…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and another of our very special Insights mini-series looking ahead to 2025. Your host is Andy Davies and we've partnered up with some key kitchen and bathroom brands to get their take on 2024 as it draws to a close AND their views on how the market might shape up in 2025. Where are the opportunities? Where is the gr…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and another of our very special Insights mini-series looking ahead to 2025. Your host is Andy Davies and we've partnered up with some key kitchen and bathroom brands to get their take on 2024 as it draws to a close AND their views on how the market might shape up in 2025. Where are the opportunities? Where is the gr…
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Insights 2025: Dean Williams, The 1810 Company
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and another of our very special Insights mini-series looking ahead to 2025. I'm Andy Davies and we've partnered up with some key kitchen and bathroom brands to get their take on 2024 as it draws to a close AND their views on how the market might shape up in 2025. Where are the opportunities? Where is the growth? Wha…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and another of our very special Insights mini-series looking ahead to 2025. We've partnered up with some key kitchen and bathroom brands to get their take on 2024 as it draws to a close AND their views on how the market might shape up in 2025. Where are the opportunities? Where is the growth? What might be the pitfa…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and the first episode of this very special Insights mini-series looking ahead to 2025. We've partnered up with some key kitchen and bathroom brands to get their take on 2024 as it draws to a close AND their views on how the market might shape up in 2025. Where are the opportunities? Where is the growth? What might b…
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Welcome to The Kbbreview Podcast and another of our special episodes around the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025. This month’s episode is a peek behind the curtain of the awards, as we have a chat with some of the judges, both in the retail business categories and the design categories. We’ll find out about the approach to judging and interpre…
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BONUS: Rising Star November, Alistair Glover
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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 and this is Episode Ten and the last official episode of Season 13. Season 14 will officially start in the New Year but we'll actually be back in December with a special mini-series looking ahead to 2025 AND, of course, the now legendary episode where we reveal the shortlist for the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards …
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Nine of Season 13. Today we're delving back into the mysteries of the brain with another look at the psychology of you and your clients and, in particular, the effect of unconscious bias on how you view them and they view you. Does the car they drive, the clothes they we…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies as always and today we're asking the most fundamental and simple question that usually doesn't have an easy answer - how's business? The market has been really poor for some time - you don't need me to tell you that - but what are the nuances within it, what are the different perspectives o…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, you host today 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. …
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Seven of Season 13. And today we're delving into the world of franchises. They've been around a long time in this sector, of course, but the accelerated growth of Kutchenhaus in particular has refocused attention on the business model that combines lots of the pros of be…
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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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