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Sales of homewares, including products such as cookware, enjoyed a welcome boost last month.

Following intense speculation in the national press about the future of high street hardware chain Robert Dyas, it seems a buyout deal has been struck to save the ailing retailer.

The publishers of the new pleaseandthankyou.co.uk website have corrected a number of inaccuracies in a story about the site that appeared on HousewaresLive.net last month – in particular the statement that it will sell at discount prices.

Home-cooked meals, baking, slow cooking, food on the go, entertaining at home...all big trends sparked by recession – and all trends that the housewares industry can benefit from, delegates to yesterday’s Housewares Conference learned.

DKB Household’s Swiss brand Zyliss has been awarded a prestigious Red Dot Award for the outstanding design of its Pizza & Pastry cutter.

Thursday June 4 is an important date for the diary, not to be missed - an opportunity to spend a day at the UK’s premier clay shooting school along with some of the UK’s top home enhancement retailers and suppliers.

Cookshop chain Steamer Trading has scooped a major award, being named Emerging Retailer of the Year in the prestigious Retail Week 2009 Awards.

A big supplier of glassware to UK companies, the Slovak lead crystal manufacturer, Slovglass Poltar, has successfully come out of administration.

The East of England Co-op chain has taken knives off the shelves of its 135 stores.

Bentalls is one of five retailers to be named as Global Honorees in this year’s Global Innovator Awards, sponsored by Chicago's International Home + Housewares Show and the International Housewares Association.