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Following the success of the first Housewares Conference & Innovation Awards last year, plans for the 2013 event are now well under way.

The latest survey into the cookware purchasing habits of US consumers has found for the first time that just over half (50.9%) would now prefer to buy cookware with ceramic non-stick coatings rather than traditional PTFE.

Spring Fair International has thrown its weight behind the Fair Rates for Retail campaign and helped deliver a major boost in petition signatures.

Over 150 customers queued from 8.30am today for the opening of the first joint John Lewis at Home and Waitrose, in Ipswich.

A Bodum barbecue grill is being withdrawn from the market and the products destroyed after it was found to pose a fire risk.

The lengths people go to to find the perfect gift at Christmas is the theme of John Lewis's Christmas television advertising campaign, which launches tomorrow.

Steamer Trading says it believes it has "created something that is truly special" as its long-awaited transactional website finally goes live.

Fledgling UK website www.wayfair.co.uk, which sells a comprehensive range of homewares, has achieved £20m of sales in its first year.

Two long-established independent ironmongers in the Lake District, Middletons of Kendal and Musgraves of Windermere, embraced a change of identity this autumn as they joined Home Hardware.

October delivered disappointing shopper numbers and retail sales - leading the British Retail Consortium to describe the previous month's improved figures as "something of a false dawn".