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Excellence In Housewares Awards 2017 Inset: The 28 retail buyers that comprised the Product Judging Panel 2017 for the Excellence in Housewares Awards, along with PH and observers from sponsors BHETA, Exclusively Housewares and the IHA.
How are the finalists and winners for the most coveted industry awards decided? The Excellence in Housewares Awards build-up is all-round industry affair, involving suppliers and retailers from across the housewares spectrum. PH explains the judging process.
Below: Steamer Trading’s Ben Phillips with Harrods’ Joanne Norton and Lyn Walsh. Below right: Home Hardware’s Rachel Taylor (right) and Potter’ Alison Hobbs just prior to the judging.
La Crème de la Creme
Ooh La La The vintage Parisian themed Awards night on October 4 includes the announcement of retailer and product winners, as well as the winners of the Supplier Awards for Excellence in Marketing, Service and Innovation, which are the result of an industry-wide retailer poll. A massive ‘thank you’ to all of our category and event sponsors who are all helping to create a night to remember. www.excellenceinhousewaresawards.co.uk
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Progressive Housewares
The Product Judging Panel for 2017 Neil Allweil, director, MillysStore, Prestwich Tom Carter, director, Potters Cookshop, Hockley David Conduit, purchasing manager, Harts of Stur Sarah Edmiston, housewares buyer, The Tool Shop Group Amy Ellis, buyer, Bentalls, Kingston Matt Fendall, owner, Essentials, Hazlemere Camilla Brown, graduate buyer, Bentalls, Kingston Gary Gordon, director, Kitchen Kapers Dean Hawes, buyer, Fenwick Colchester Simone Hillman, buyer, Borough Kitchen Alison Hobbs, visual display assistant, Potters Cookshop, Hockley Andrew Johnston, md, The Kitchen Range, Market Harborough Donna Johnston, director, Ruby & Scarlet, Felixstowe Justin Kowbel, owner of Borough Kitchen Kate Lynch, assistant buyer, Debenhams Christine Lynn-Thomas, owner, Kooks Unlimited, Richmond Helen Miller, senior buyer, Fenwick, Brent Cross Joanne Norton, homewares buyer, Harrods Claire Noye, director, Ruby & Scarlet, Felixstowe Julie Poynton, homewares buyer, Barkers Home, Northallerton Jayne Stewart, buyer, Ulster Stores/De Gruchy Matt Thomas, buyer utility shop, John Lewis Rachel Taylor, buyer, Home Hardware Lyn Walsh, assistant buyer, Harrods Angela Williamson, merchandise planner, Lakeland Holly Wilson, owner, Prep Cookshop and Richard Dare, Stoke Newington and Primrose Hill Alan Wood, joint md, Trevor Mottram, Tunbridge Wells Sarah Wood, joint md, Trevor Mottram, Tunbridge Wells * Besides the PH team, judging day observers were: Exclusively’s Lindsey Hoyle; UK representative for the IHA and International Home + Housewares Show, Marcus Findlay, and BHETA’s housewares director, Will Jones.