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Putting what it calls a "real focus" on cookware in recent years has contributed to a boom in non-food sales at Sainsbury's - and the supermarket says there are still huge opportunities for growth.

A new survey by retail chain Hobbycraft reveals that baking is now the most popular leisure activity out of a wide range of other arts and crafts pursuits.

Retailers' operating costs have increased by 21% since 2006, and it is centrally-driven costs that have risen most rapidly.

The organiser of Spring Fair International says this year's show bucked the high street gloom, with figures released today showing that visitor numbers were up 6% over last year.

A free-to-access website providing detailed product information on non-stick coatings for housewares products has just been updated.

Over half of the visitors to this month's Ambiente fair in Frankfurt were from outside Germany for the first time.

Members of Home Hardware Southwest received a record £139,000-worth of rebates, dividends and investment interest from the company last year.

The number of empty shops fell slightly last year - but the figure masks huge differences in the fates of shopping hubs across Great Britain.

This week sees 40 individuals set to become future retail industry leaders gather in Oxford for the Oxford Summer School Masters programme.

The number of shoppers in non-food stores last month fell by 6% when compared to January 2012, new figures released today show.