LATEST SPONSOR FOR THE BiKBBI

QUOOKER UNVEILED AS INSTITUTES LATEST SPONSOR!

Established kitchen appliance brand Quooker has joined the BiKBBI family of sponsors.

The company is supporting the institute with a huge investment into the BiKBBI Installation Apprenticeship Scheme and will work in collaboration to enable the growth required to help ensure the future well-being of the industry.

Quooker is a family business that’s modusoperandi is based on enthusiasm and entrepreneurship. This is borne out by the fact that the world’s first boiling-water tap was the brain-child of company Director Niels Peteri. Further inventions like the high-vacuum insulated tank, the all-inone taps Quooker Fusion and Flex and the series of black boiling-water taps has completely changed the landscape of the sink area of a kitchen.

Led in the UK by the dynamic Stephen Johnson, the brand is hugely established and is now ready to support the UK kitchen industry by backing the BiKBBI in its quest to grow the next generation of kbb installers by investing at grass-roots level.

Stephen comments, “It’s vital that we look after the future of our industry and installers are an absolute vital cog. There is already a growing skills gap that needs to be closed and we hope that our collaboration with the BiKBBI will help accelerate this objective.”

On behalf of the BiKBBI, Damian Walters enthused, “We are absolutely delighted that such an established and recognised brand as Quooker has recognised our work in all areas of improving standards by becoming a corporate sponsor. However, its recognition of the necessity to develop the next generation on installers and supporting it so generously financially is massively welcome. Let’s hope that it inspires others to follow Quookers lead as much further investment is required to ensure that our apprenticeship objectives are fulfilled.”

CHECK YOUR POLICY NOW!

BiKBBI CEO, Damian Walters, urged tradespeople and retailers to check their insurance policies, after The Supreme Court ruled on business disruption policies.

The basis of the court case was to decide whether or not, companies who held business interruption policies, were entitled to compensation after having to close during the first national lockdown. pandemic rather than a localised occurrence.

Since the court’s ruling, the majority of businesses who will now receive claims will be customers of these six insurers, but thankfully, firms who hold similar policies with other insurance companies now stand a far greater chance of success.

Damian commented on the ruling by saying, “This is great

“This is great news for the SME. If an insurance policy includes protection against business disruption caused by disease, then rightfully policy holders be entitled to claim!”

These policies usually only cover disruption to commercial activity caused by property damage, but they can also include losses from ‘infectious’ or notifiable diseases.

Six insurers who had sold business interruption insurance products, namely, Arch, Argenta, Hiscox, MS Amlin, QBE and RSA, all unsuccessfully argued that their policies did not cover COVID-19 because it was a global news for the SME. If an insurance policy includes protection against business disruption caused by disease, then rightfully policy holders be entitled to claim!” Damian added, “My advice to all tradespeople would be to check your policy. We written to our members who we believe should be aware that they could make a valid claim.”