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British manufacturer Stewart Home has been chosen by Harvey Nichols to supply products as part of the stores' Queen's Diamond Jubilee offer.

Valerie Graham has named the two housewares retailers that have triumphed in its recent Maxwell & Williams product display competitions.

Businesses across the UK are starting to pay their bills faster, suggesting a tightening-up of credit management and collection policies.

The giant American cookware and bakeware supplier Regal Ware is getting out of the US retail market.

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Retailers are taking action as new figures reveal a dramatic increase in reported incidents of abuse against shop staff.

The past few years have seen a dramatic shrinking of the availability of retail jobs coupled with a mushrooming of the number of applicants for each one.

Although the cookware market has managed to hold its own over the last year, the picture for the first few months of 2012 looks less than promising.

BHETA has partnered with Thomson Local Directories, the UK's largest provider of market data, to allow members to build databases specific to their requirements.

American homewares retail giant Bed Bath & Beyond is to buy the smaller Cost Plus Inc operation as it seeks to widen its offer.