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What is the KBSA for?

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Brochures - sales tools or showroom clutter?

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How safe is your stone?

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Why doesn't sustainability sell?

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How Ripples doubled its showroom network in five years

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The latest from Lakes

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Should you get a second showroom?

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What’s your succession plan?

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The Government cowboy crackdown...but who protects the KBB retailer?

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Is business ACTUALLY improving?

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Peter Dunlop: Building Bathshack

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What's going on at Magnet?

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Resilience 2026: Matt Fowler from Hettich

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Resilience 2026: Julie McLean from Hansgrohe

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Resilience 2026: Dominic Worsley from Aga Rangemaster

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Resilience 2026: Howard Grindrod from Hisense

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Resilience 2026: Arthur Leaker from Leaker Direct

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Resilience 2026: Sven Herden from Rotpunkt

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Is your website working hard enough?

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The reinvention of Kitchens International

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The new online threat

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What keeps you awake at night?

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Is the mid-market being squeezed?

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How to charge for design

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How the 2026 Retailers of the Year built award-winning businesses...

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What's the best way train new recruits?

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Why is recruitment so difficult?

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Is the contracts market worth it?

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Is there a ban on using high silica stone?

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Margins: how to protect the profit

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Are rebates really an incentive?

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So….how’s 2026 actually going?

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Interview: Sophie Rose, Magnet

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The kbbreview Awards 2026 event - Part Two

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The kbbreview Awards 2026 event - Part One

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What's your checklist for choosing new suppliers?

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Celebrating a personal 20 years of the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards

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Interview: Jim Barnard, Kutchenhaus

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Interview: Introducing Midea

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Kitchens vs. Bathrooms: Should retailers diversify more?

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BONUS: Rising Star 2026 - Laila Kamiabi

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Is A.I. actually useful for independent KBB retailers?

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AWARDS 2026 BONUS: Meet the design category judges

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Firefighting! Dealing with the unexpected problems every retailer faces everyday...

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BONUS: Rising Star 2026 - Mariam Susan Joseph

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Do kitchen and bathroom designers think enough about sales skills and techniques?

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AWARDS 2026 BONUS: Meet the business category judges

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If someone gave you £100,000 for your business, what would you do with it?

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BONUS: Rising Star 2026 - Amy Hartland

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Interview: Dean Weston from CP Hart

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Interview: Pat Riley from Bathroom Brands

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EXCLUSIVE: The 2026 kbbreview awards finalists revealed

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Insight 2026: Dominic Worsley, Aga Rangemaster

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Insight 2026: Wes McKenna, Uform

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Insight 2026: Aimee Fletcher, Egger

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Insight 2026: Danny Lay, Caple

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Insight 2026: Steve Breen and Ruth Davies, VitrA

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Insights 2026: Simeon Gabriel, Hettich

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Insights 2026: David Hance, Bathroom Brands

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The verdict on 2025 and looking ahead to 2026

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BONUS: Rising Star 2026 - Max Hitchcox

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AWARDS 2026 BONUS: Meet Richard Sloan from Sonas Bathrooms

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BONUS: Rising Star 2026 - Holly Magee

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What do you do when products fail and who's responsible for picking up the bill?

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Why should retailers bother entering KBB industry awards?

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BONUS: Jorge Hernandez, Bathroom Brands

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Are supplier trips worth the time away from the showroom?

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Why is it so hard to get clients over the line and commit to the sale?

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What do you do when suppliers go bust?

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BONUS: Rising Star 2025 - Jessica Liu

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Can independents ever unite to change the industry for the better?

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BONUS: Dominic Worsley, Aga Rangemaster

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USPs, differentiation and standing out from the crowd

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AWARDS 2026 BONUS: Entries now OPEN!

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How have installers changed since covid?

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BONUS: Rising Star 2025 - Lorenzo Dell'Aquila

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How have suppliers changed since covid?

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BONUS: Rising Star 2025/26, Rachelle Hawes

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How has the customer changed since covid?

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BONUS: Katie Cope, Showerwall

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Interview: Scott & Ben Slater, founders of Kesseler

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Interview: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

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Interview - John Sims-Hilditch, co-founder of Neptune

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InstallerSHOW LIVE: Social media masterclass

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InstallerSHOW LIVE: Accessible design masterclass

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InstallerSHOW LIVE: How's business?

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Interview: Phil Cole, Clive Christian

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Interview: Rob Ginsberg, hib.

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Interview: Mike Costain, InstallerSHOW

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InSinkErator - The Next Generation

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Interview: Miele's Dr Reinhard Zinkann

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The Award Winners - Part Two

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The Award Winners - Part One

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BONUS: All about Alku

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Catch up with our Adopted Retailers

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How's business?

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The cost of being an independent retailer

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Designing for dementia

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AWARDS BONUS 7: All about the Blackpool Tower...

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How to be a freelance designer