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The economic climate resulted in a 20% decline in the number of visitors to this month’s Tendence exhibition, with those from abroad falling by about a third.

John Horton has been appointed managing director of Amefa (UK), with immediate effect.

Housewares are amongst market sectors being targeted by Sainsbury’s in a major new online assault on the non-food market, launched this week.

Hitchen cookshop Colanders has launched a new e-commerce website which it says offers a choice of kitchenware that compares with that of any major department store or other leading site.

John Lewis has kicked off one of the biggest retail recruitment campaigns in Poole this year as it looks for staff for its first new homewares store.

More than 90% of retailers say retail crime has increased over the last 12 months, and more than four-fifths believe the rise has been caused by the recession.

This month’s annual Oswestry Food and Drink Festival has notched up another triumph – and the town has cookshop retailer Yossi Gliksman to thank for coming up with the idea in the first place.

Members of the BHETA Board spent yesterday afternoon discussing the ramifications of the morning’s EGM, which produced the extraordinary result of a split vote on the proposed merger.

The future of BHETA's proposed merger with the BJGF and its management structure hangs in the balance after voting at this morning's EGM was split down the middle.

Re-usable "bags for life" have helped supermarkets slash the number of environmentally-damaging plastic carrier bags handed out.