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Following www.HousewaresLive.net and Housewares Magazine's move to new owner Datateam Publishing last Friday, new contact details are now available for the editorial and advertising team.

Gilberts has announced the appointment of Neil Gardiner as its new sales agent to cover the whole of Ireland.

Home brewing is back, according to housewares chain Lakeland, which has just introduced a series of products for brewing beer, wine and cider at home.

Housewares chain Abraxas Cookshop has just launched Abraxas On-Line - its new 'virtual shop'.

The UK's appetite for home baking shows no signs of abating, according to the latest data from GfK.

The top seven spots in the list of best-selling non-fiction hardback books for the week ending March 31 are filled with cookery titles written by celebrity chefs.

The second edition of the Cake & Bake Show kicks off this weekend at Manchester Central.

The Easter weekend drove strong sales across the Home category at John Lewis, delivering a record week to March 30 for Cooking and Dining, and driving sales up 11% against the like-for-like period.

Total sales (excluding petrol) at Waitrose were £140.7m in the week to March 30, representing its biggest sales week ever outside of Christmas, as shoppers stocked up with Easter treats for the long weekend ahead.

New statistics reveal that baking and cooking tops the nation's list of favourite creative family activities, with nearly 75% of parents saying they regularly don aprons and reach for their whisks to bake up culinary delights with their kids, according to a survey by arts and crafts retailer Hobbycraft.