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The kbbreview Podcast

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies as always. This week we're looking at something really interesting that's been around for quite a long time but hasn't really managed to get much traction with retailers - and that's the Water Label. In a nutshell, it's the water efficiency equivalent of the energy ratings label that all ap…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast where your host is, as always, Andy Davies, Today's episode is a really, really interesting discussion between some top retailers recorded at the recent KBSA Conference. It was billed as The Big Debate and it did cover several topics but here we're going to concentrate on two: Firstly, is the inclusive/multi-generat…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies it's a brand new season - and would you believe we're at Season Ten. In this episode, we're asking a very simple but very relevant question - how's business? There's no doubt that the market is uncertain, unpredictable and unwilling to play nicely so that very straightforward question has l…
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Welcome to the kbbreview podcast, and welcome to the first of our official bonus episodes all about The kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2024. That's right, the biggest and longest-running awards event in the UK kitchen and bathroom industry is back and in 2024 we're celebrating an amazing 30 years. A few weeks ago we did an episode announcing that…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this episode is officially episode ten of season nine. That means it's the last full episode of the season and what a series it has been - we've talked about resolving disputes,, packaging, apprentices, Howdens, installers, recruitment, the state of the market and much, much more. If yo…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and welcome back to the second part of our special series in association with Cyncly. In part one a few weeks ago, we met designers Hugo Castro from Wilson Bathrooms in Glasgow and Manish Hirani from Moiety Kitchens in London and we started our look at how they use Cyncly products such as Virtual Worlds and Winner t…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode 9 of Season 9 and Iyour host as always is Andy Davies. It's our penultimate show of the season and it's a real state-of-the-industry one today as we look at an area that is a real bellwether for how we're all doing - and that's recruitment. Redundancies and job losses are always an indicator of a si…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is another very special bonus episode of the show where we get to meet some of the industry's leading suppliers and really get under the skin of what makes them tick. Today it's a great one as we talk to leading distributor Lawcris about a subject that is shaping, guiding and creat…
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Welcome to episode eight of season nine of The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and today we're talking about installers again. A couple of weeks ago we did a really interesting episode looking at new research into the influence they have over the consumer. There was a LOT of interest in that one so today we're looking at how kbb retaile…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and this is another very special bonus episode where we get under the skin of the industry's most interesting suppliers. Today is all about Wharf - the solid surface supplier that's the brainchild of two old school friends who once mucked around in class, but together now run a ve…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is episode seven of season nine. But as much as we all like knowing the reference number, this episode is all about something much more momentous - entries are open for the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2024. Entries opened on September the 1st for the biggest awards in the UK a…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode Six of Season Nine and today we're looking at influencers. No, don't worry, we don't mean people who used to be on Love Island, we mean the people that have a massive influence on not only the products that go into new bathrooms, but also who consumers are buying those products from. And that's inst…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast and this very special bonus episode where we're bringing you more from our friends at Cyncly. In the last Cyncly episode we looked at the story behind the mergers of Compusoft, 2020 and then Virtual Worlds that make Cyncly the portfolio of essential CAD and business management software products for the kitchen and b…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode Five of Season Nine and we're talking apprenticeships today. There's been a lot of noise around the need to have more apprentices and how it's a massive part of plugging the major skills gap in the installation part of the KBB sector - something that's only going to get worse if we don't find that n…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode Four of Season Nine and it's being delivered to you all wrapped up in a cardboard box of information stuffed with the plastic air pillows of relevance. That's because we're talking about packaging today. Every single kitchen or bathroom project you do generates loads of waste as you take every compo…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and for anyone who says he's not then we demand compensation or we'll see you in court! Yes, this week we're talking all about dispute resolution or, in layman's terms, what you do when you have a disagreement with a customer and shouting rude things about their mother to them thr…
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Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast - this is Episode Two of Season Nine and your host Andy Davies. It's a really, really interesting one today as we get a peak behind the curtain at the company that sells more kitchens than anyone else in the UK by a mighty margin - Howdens. Last week saw the release of its half-year results for the six months up to …
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, this is a very special bonus episode of the show where we get to introduce you to our friends at Hanex UK. Hanex is, of course, the solid surface from global manufacturing giant Hyundai. And, here, its official distributor is Hanex UK. Based in Southampton, they work with fabricators, architects, interior designers…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and we're back with a brand new season. That's right, we're heading into the summer with another bumper crop of episodes that we're going to unimaginatively call Season Nine. And what a guest to kick it all off with - we're talking to a proper KBB legend - Roger Cooper. As of the end of Jun…
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Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and this is Episode 10 of Season 8 - that makes it the last episode of this season but don't worry, we'll be back towards the end of July with Season Nine. And for this triumphant finale we're going to celebrate by talking about something thoroughly depressing - mortgages. Let's b…
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Hello and welcome to this very special bonus episode of The kbbreview Podcast brought to you with the help of our very good friends at Cyncly. As you know, Cyncly is the name of the company that came out of the merger between the two software giants of Compusoft and 2020. It now also includes Virtual Worlds in that suite of products as well as EQ a…
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