About BHETA

The British Home Enhancement Trade Association (BHETA) is the voice of authority on everything home improvement and home enhancement, including DIY, housewares, garden, small domestic appliances and home decor. It represents £5 billion at retail and 9,000 employees and brings together manufacturers, suppliers, retailers and opinion formers to drive growth at home and abroad. For more information about retailer and supplier co-operation, contact BHETA on 0121 237 1130, or email wj@bheta.co.uk, or visit the website at www.bheta.co.uk and what is it planning to do to help members manage and benefit from these complex circumstances as much as they can? It is a positive mix of reliable market facts, retailer networking and strategic advice including training and contacts to enable members to take advantage of the opportunities that undoubtedly remain.

For the record, BHETA has hosted over fifty webinars in the last year providing relevant information and support on topics such as digital marketing, B2C strategy and packaging regulations. There were also twelve retailer networking forums and MTB events with key UK customers such as Homebase, Amazon, John Lewis and Toolstation.

Lobbying has been and continues to be a massive part of the association’s role on behalf of members. Examples this year include lobbying DIT for a reinstatement of a grant scheme to support suppliers exhibiting abroad, delaying the launch, and reallocating the burden of cost of the proposed new EPR packaging scheme, to pressing retailers on slow payments. Lobbying will continue to afford BHETA the opportunity to help members deal with specific challenges such as EPR, Export grant support, retailer payment issues and responsible knife retailing. BHETA will also continue to work with key industry bodies such as the CBI, DEFRA, BEIS (business energy and industrial strategy) whose larger voice can help to support us on those bigger issues such as shipping costs, Green Energy and net zero.

Following the recent BHETA member survey, just under a third of BHETA members are actively interested in switching sourcing back or moving to European suppliers, with 15 per cent having recently done so. This feeds into the security of supply narrative and the over reliance on East Asia for the supply of goods. This is an area in which BHETA will support members as it leads to more UK reshoring opportunities.

BHETA member engagement is at an all-time high, and while 2023 will no doubt be an extremely challenging year, we have a number of pro-active initiatives that will support our members and help us achieve our objective of being the go-to trade association for the industry.

For more information about BHETA, BHETA events and BHETA services, contact the BHETA Member Services team on 0121 237 1130 or visit the BHETA website www.bheta.co.uk.