The kbbreview Podcast

Welcome to this special bonus Save Our Skills episode of The kbbreview Podcast. Your host as always is Taylist Media managing editor Andy Davies. For those that don’t know, the kbbreview Save Our Skills campaign was launched back in March and it’s all about helping those people who have been made redundant from roles in the kbb industry because of the economic uncertainties surrounding the coronav...

Welcome to this special episode to kick off season two of The kbbreview Podcast . This is a detailed look into the highs and lows of the lockdown period for the independent kitchen and bathroom retail market to give us a snapshot of what happened and what might happen. Is this all pent-up demand that will inevitably wear off?  Or is this the ‘new normal’ that we heard so much about during the lock...

Welcome to episode 38 of The kbbreview Podcast with your host Andy Davies. This is another interim episode while Andy takes a little break to catch up on non-podcast work that insists on some attention. So this is the second of our two catch-ups on interviews that previously ran on our other show – The Kitchen & Bathroom Design Podcast - and this time we’re hearing all about biophilic design from...

Welcome to episode 37 of The kbbreview Podcast with your host Andy Davies. It’s a special episode this week as we're  taking a couple of weeks break  while Andy catches up with his day job.   So we're running a couple of interviews that originally appeared on our other show – The Kitchen & Bathrooms Design Podcast – to keep your lust for all things kbb going. We’re going to start with our kbbrevie...

Welcome to episode 36 of The kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media with your host Andy Davies . This week we’re looking into a couple of issues that have come out of the lockdown and are vital to the future – both immediate AND long term – of the independent kbb retail sector. And that’s what the role of the supplier area sales manager will become in a post-lockdown market…. And if the shortage of...

Welcome to episode 35 of The kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media with your host Andy Davies . We’ve got a couple of really interesting discussions this week and they’re both – in very different ways – about opportunity. First up we’re talking about how consumers AND retailers can make money from reselling used or ex-display kitchens with Looeeze Grossman from The Used Kitchen Company . Then we’ve...

Welcome to episode 34 of The kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media with your host Andy Davies . This week we’re talking about where design goes from here.  Just how might the enforced changes to our lifestyles caused by the lockdown affect how we use and design our homes in the future? Has the experience of working from home, home learning, connecting with nature and spending so much time with fami...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media , this is episode 33 with your host Andy Davies . We’ve got a really interesting episode for you this week as we look at the art of body language – good retailers, designers and salespeople know how to read their clients but lockdown and social distancing has changed how everyone is behaving. How do you read faces when they’re covered in a mask a...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media, this is episode 32 with your host Andy Davies. We’re talking to Gary Baker, the md of CDUK – they’re one of the industry’s most interesting suppliers as they’ve grown through the success of the versatility of Corian. And Gary is also the chairman of the Furniture and Interiors Education, Skills and Training Alliance or Fiesta, and he’ll talk us...

It's episode 31 and we’re heading to Wales for today’s show. First up we’re talking to Justine Bullock  from The Tap End - a small independent bathroom retailer with a high street showroom near Cardiff.  Lockdown has seen them clock up their most successful period ever so we  find out all about that. Then we have Steve Tough from very proud Welsh kitchen furniture manufacturer Masterclass. They’ve...

Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media, this is episode 30 and with your host Andy Davies . And what better way to mark this 30-episode milestone than by talking to two of the biggest names in the industry. First up we have John Curwen , managing director of probably the largest network of premium kitchen retailers Harvey Jones . And then we have one of the biggest suppliers in the in...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is episode 29 with your host Taylist Media managing editor Andy Davies Anyway, we’ve got a great show this week as we’re focussing on the state of the market in Scotland. First of all, I’ll be catching up with retailer Keith Wilson at the Perth Kitchen Centre and then we’ll head over to Falkirk where I’ll be talking to James McMorrine from Carron Bathrooms ....

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast , this is episode 28 with your host, Taylist Media managing editor Andy Davies . If you want to get in touch with Andy then you can email him at andrewdavies@taylistmedia.com . On the show today we’re talking websites, social media and digital marketing and, in particular, what the next steps are if the lockdown has started you on that journey for the first time. W...

Welcome to T he kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media , this is episode 27 and your host as always is managing editor Andy Davies . First we have the view from one of the biggest brands in the sector-  Hansgrohe - and we’re chatting to UK managing director Jay Phillips . How does he see the market right now and what will happen in the future?  And we have Phillip Adcock , an expert in the psycholog...

Welcome to a special bonus episode of The kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media . In this extra episode, we have another dip into our other show – the Kitchen & Bathroom Design Podcast – where we’re just put up this episode all about ‘ Safe Design ’. If you like the sound of it, we’ve got another 26 episodes for you to go and binge. All you need to do is search ‘ kitchen and bathroom design ’ in yo...

This is episode 26 of The kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media with your host Andrew Davies. First up, we’re talking to Jonny Westbrooke from The Furniture Maker’s Company – the livery company and charity that, along with many other things, provides support to members of the furniture industry who have fallen on difficult financial times – very relevant at the moment of course and Jonny tells us w...

Welcome to episode 25 of The kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media with your host Andy Davies . In this episode we're looking at how kbb retailers can do more with the data they collect from their current, previous and potentially new clients. Using good data can hugely improve the effectivness of your marketing, according to our guest David Barker from Inspire KBB. Then we welcome Amir Reske to th...

Welcome the kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media, this is episode 24 with host Andy Davies. As always, we have a couple of really interesting guests. First up we have a very switched on bathroom retailer from down here in London  and that’s Sam Colwill from Bathrooms By Design. He’s got some interesting views on how they need to adapt to how the consumer will research and purchase bathrooms in the...

This is episode 23 of The kbbreview Podcast with a couple of very interesting guests.  Firstly we have Jane Blakeborough from KBB researchers Trend Monitor . We teamed up with them to run a survey of consumers looking at whether they will continue with existing kitchen and bathroom projects or start new ones after being stuck at home for so long. Here's a write up of the main results. Then we have...

Welcome to episode 22 of the kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media. We’re back after a little bit of a break and we have a great couple of guests to kick off the latest series of episodes – firstly we have the return of Luke Wedgbury from Coalville Kitchens in Leicestershire. You may remember him from episode one, and he’s got some very good news about how his business has been faring during the lo...

Welcome to episode 21 of the kbbreview Podcast from Taylist Media with managing editor Andy Davies In this episode we’re talking to a couple of very interesting guests with some very insightful views on the market as we emerge from lockdown. Firstly, we have David Barber , he’s the new managing director of Ideal Standard in the UK and what a time to take that big chair.  Then we have the return of...

Welcome to episode 20 of The kbbreview Podcast Well, that’s it, you can open your showroom again if you want to – and as much as many people will not want to admit it, you have Wren Kitchens to thank for it.  And, of course, kbbreview for finding it out. Wren's challenge to the official lockdown regulations has meant that anyone selling kitchens and bathroom can almost certainly open their showroo...

Welcome to a very special episode of the kbbreview Podcast – this is outside of the normal episodes as it’s actually a taster of our other show, The Kitchen and Bathroom Design Podcast. This is the latest episode all about designing showrooms so I thought there was a natural crossover to put it up here as well to give you an idea of what the other podcast is like. There’s over 25 episodes there th...

This is episode 19 and we’re looking at what’s happening at the DIY shed end of the market, how are they opening, what can they sell, and what’s going to happen in the next few months. We speak to Steve Collinge from the Insight Retail Group . And then we’re really lucky to have a chat with sales guru extraordinaire Chris Murray , he’s got some fascinating perspective on how sales should be approa...

This is episode 18 of the kbbreview Podcast and we're looking at the thorny issue of supplier credit for retailers with Paul Hide , the head of the appliance manufacturers' trade association Amdea.  We're also welcoming back Joel La Rosa who tells us how and why business at his kitchen and bathroom retail and design business has never been better. If you’re interested in sponsoring the podcast you...