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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

41:22

Is it worth selling appliances?

The kbbreview Podcast ·

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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28:32

Should KBB retailers insure deposits?

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/03/11

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 looking at whether or not retailers should have some kind of deposit protection insurance. In other words, something that means they will get back any money

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7:45

BONUS: Rising Star February, Sonny Upton

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/03/06

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 and this very podcast. Those eight monthly winners then become the shortlist for the overall winner which will be revealed at the kbbreview Retail &

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32:24

Interview: Sharon Wallis, MD, Poggenpohl UK

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/03/04

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 it was in 1892 in Germany by Friedemir Poggenpohl but its recent history has been a little more tumultuous.In 2020 at the height of the pandemic it filed

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12:26

AWARDS BONUS 6: The design judging....

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/02/27

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, and how much they get out of the process themselves.We caught up with them at the end of the finalists presentation days. This is when they get to quiz

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31:18

Should retailers pay for displays?

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/02/25

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 YOU think should foot the bill - the retailer or the supplier?Why do some brands offer 'free' displays and others not?What are the pros and cons for the

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BONUS: Rising Star January, Victoria Mich

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/01/28

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 very podcast. Those eight monthly winners then become the shortlist for the overall winner which will be revealed at the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards

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16:39

AWARDS BONUS 5: Meet the finalists

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2025/01/22

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 stage of judging.We have for New Kitchen Retailer Of The Year finalists Andy Barwell from Turnwell Kitchens in Chichester and a finalist in not one, not

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25:08

The awards shortlist revealed....

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/12/19

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 next week so don't miss it!Huge thanks to our Awards Podcast Partner for 2025 Sonas Bathrooms, we couldn't do these special awards episodes without their

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14:15

BONUS: Rising Star December, Isabelle Huxford

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/12/17

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 monthly winners then become the shortlist for the overall winner which will be revealed at the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025 in April.It's done

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17:11

Insights 2025: Andrew Laidler, EGGER

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/12/13

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 growth? What might be the pitfalls? And where is the focus for them?It's an invaluable peak into the 2025 plans, ambitions and goals of some of the sector's

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13:04

Insights 2025: Jon Thelwell, JJO

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/12/13

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 growth? What might be the pitfalls? And where is the focus for them?It's an invaluable peak into the 2025 plans, ambitions and goals of some of the sector's

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20:49

Insights 2025: Dean Williams, The 1810 Company

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/12/11

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? What might be the pitfalls? And where is the focus for them?It's an invaluable peak into the 2025 plans, ambitions and goals of some of the sector's most

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23:05

Insights 2025: Neal Jones, Blanco

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/12/10

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 pitfalls? And where is the focus for them?It's an invaluable peak into the 2025 plans, ambitions and goals of some of the sector's most dynamic brands.Today

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17:23

Insights 2025: Sarah Williams, Armera

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/12/09

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 be the pitfalls? And where is the focus for them?It's an invaluable peak into the 2025 plans, ambitions and goals of some of the sector's most dynamic

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27:30

AWARDS BONUS 3: Meet the judges

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/11/14

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 interpreting the criteria, and what the judges expect from the 2025 awards in particular.A huge thank you needs to go out to our awards podcast partner, Sonas

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11:42

BONUS: Rising Star November, Alistair Glover

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/11/07

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 eight monthly winners then become the shortlist for the overall winner which will be revealed at the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2025 in

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29:13

Meet our Adopted Retailers

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/11/05

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 2025 (entries close on November 14th!)In this episode we're meeting two of our 2024/25 Adopted Retailers - you may have seen this in the magazine and

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23:35

Do you unfairly judge your clients?

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/10/29

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 wear or the haircut they have mean that you form opinions on them the moment they come through the showroom door?Or, more worryingly, is the same true for

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24:08

How's business?

The kbbreview Podcast ·

2024/10/22

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 on why that might be, what are the positive signs of recovery and what's going to happen in the short to medium term?September and October always bring the

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