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The kbbreview Podcast

kbbreview, Andrew Davies

Kbbreview has been the leading B2B title for the independent kitchen and bathroom retail market for nearly 40 years and The kbbreview Podcast is a stand-out weekly show for this sector.We cover national industry issues, shopfloor concerns, personal stories and expert views. This is an industry spread right across the UK and our podcast community hears directly from KBB retailers discussing their biggest issues. Whether the highly-engaged audience agrees, disagrees or empathises - hearing the real

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All Episodes

35:51

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

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/07/15

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies.Neptune has grown from a humble start in the 1990s to become one of the UK’s most distinctive premium home and kitchen brands. With around 30 of its own showrooms and 80 more retail partners it has become one of the largest independent kitchen retail networks in the UK with little fanfare.And 'brand' is the most important word. Neptune, as far as co-founder John Sims-Hilditch is concerned, means something more than just a logo or a

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38:15

InstallerSHOW LIVE: Social media masterclass

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2025/07/08

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this episode comes LIVE from the InstallerSHOW 2025.This is the third and final LIVE episode we recorded at the show and we’re finishing with a question every single KBB showroom has on their mind– what should I be doing with social media?And in particular we’re looking at small to medium sized showrooms that don’t have social media teams and instead are trying to fit it into the rest of their very busy days. So if you’re time-poor and

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43:23

InstallerSHOW LIVE: Accessible design masterclass

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2025/07/02

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and we are LIVE at the InstallerShow 2025!This is our second of three shows we did at the show, and this is such an important one as its about an area that gets to the heart of what good kitchen and bathroom design is all about – the combination of style, aesthetics and practical solutions tailored to the needs of the individual, whatever they may be.And for those with needs that involve limitations in physicality or, as we will hear,

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43:46

InstallerSHOW LIVE: How's business?

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2025/06/24

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this episode was recorded LIVE today (June 24, 2025) at the InstallerSHOW 2025.Today we’re talking about the most important topic of all at the moment – and that’s the health of the kbb independent retailer market after a difficult couple of years.We did a snapshot survey of retailers a couple of months ago and the results were very mixed. Nearly a quarter said they're more confident than ever about the health of their business, while

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36:42

Interview: Phil Cole, Clive Christian

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2025/06/17

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Three of Season 15. We've got a great interview for you today - Phil Cole, the co-owner of Clive Christian.Founded in 1978 by Clive, it has become one of the few well-known kitchen brands in the ultra luxury arena - certainly in the traditional style.It's had it's ups and downs though as we will hear, going into administration in April 2022. That's where the then global sales director Phil Cole bought the company with Jim

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17:15

Interview: Rob Ginsberg, hib.

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2025/06/12

Welcome to another very special bonus episode of The kbbreview Podcast, you host is Andy Davies and today we've got a really interesting conversation with Rob Ginsberg from hib.Until very recently it was better known as H.I.B and was founded by Rob's father Warren Ginsberg 35 years ago. But it has undergone a major rebrand - and subtle name change - to underline its status as one of the leading accessories suppliers in the bathroom industry.So new name, new brand, new ranges, new products and new

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14:53

Interview: Mike Costain, InstallerSHOW

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/06/10

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andrew Davies and this is Episode Two of Season 15.This week we're building up to the InstallerSHOW - the huge exhibition of all things plumbing, heating, electrical, renewables AND, of course, kitchens and bathrooms.It's at the NEC on June 24th, 25th and 26th and it is packed with loads of product, obviously, but also networking, demos, seminars and training as well as, most importantly, LIVE recordings of this very podcast.You can come along

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24:41

InSinkErator - The Next Generation

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2025/06/05

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies, and this is a very special bonus episode where we catch up with one of the biggest brands in the sector - InSinkErator.They've got a bold new strategy, an eye-catching rebrand and a cutting-edge product launch with their new Next Generation range. They're reinventing the food waste disposal market yet again and Andy caught up with managing director Ashley Munden on changing markets, colourful campaigns and the science behind food waste

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32:07

Interview: Miele's Dr Reinhard Zinkann

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2025/06/03

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's view of the market is about as top level as it gets so...What is his take on the current state of the market?What is the strategy behind the rollout of

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14:06

The Award Winners - Part Two

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2025/04/30

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 Partner Sonas Bathrooms.You can find out more about them at sonasbathrooms.comYour awards podcast host Matt Baker managed to find a quiet-ish spot at the

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11:38

The Award Winners - Part One

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2025/04/30

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 Partner Sonas Bathrooms.You can find out more about them at sonasbathrooms.comYour awards podcast host Matt Baker managed to find a quiet-ish spot at the

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19:07

BONUS: All about Alku

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2025/04/23

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 today is the perfect time to learn more about Alku.Andy met up with marketing manager Dan Hughes recently and, in fact, their conversation is as much about

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33:16

Catch up with our Adopted Retailers

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2025/04/22

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 the future.We last spoke to them here on the podcast back at the start of November - you can listen to that here - and six months later we're here to see

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19:46

How's business?

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/04/15

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 have to change at Preston if you're in a jet.This episode is one of those where we pose one simple question to some retailers - how's business?These

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30:10

The cost of being an independent retailer

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2025/04/08

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 local and central government and - always one for the big questions - how come there are so many barbers?We're talking to Andrew Goodacre, the CEO of the

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32:51

Designing for dementia

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2025/04/01

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 includes not just factoring in extended family and friends but also future-proofing for the potential needs to come.We've talked a lot about multi-generational

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21:03

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

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2025/03/27

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 the excitement builds, in this episode we're taking a look at the venue itself. The Blackpool Tower is one of the most iconic buildings in the UK and the

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39:19

How to be a freelance designer

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2025/03/25

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 showrooms, but they will design kitchens or bathrooms for their clients - and those clients could be consumers, developers, interior design, architects or,

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13:10

BONUS: Rising Star March - Aidan Parish

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/03/20

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 wasn’t just his technical skills that impressed design and marketing director Elizabeth Pantling–Jones. “When Aidan arrived, we could see his potential that

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41:22

Is it worth selling appliances?

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2025/03/18

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 worth selling them at all?This is a really, really interesting topic as it goes to the heart of the relationship between retailers and suppliers, the

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