The kbbreview Podcast

Welcome to Episode Nine of Season Eight of The kbbreview Podcast,  your host as always is Andy Davies. Today we're looking at what has become a real growth area for the kitchen retail market - and we could definitely do with some of that at the moment - and that's Outdoor Kitchens. They've shot up in popularity since we all took a new interest in the totality of our home during lockdown and, for c...

Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast,  your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Eight of Season Eight.  Today we're talking stone, it's a material that's so common in premium kitchens - and bathrooms sometimes too of course - especially in the form of engineered quartz. So we're going to ask two really important questions today - firstly, do designers and retailers really understand how to use sto...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode Seven of Season Eight and your host as always is Andy Davies. It's another nuts and bolts episode this week as we look at what retailers think and do about consumers who are shopping around.  Everyone is told to get several quotes for any big job, but for kbb retailers that often means wasting significant time working on quotes or designs that you...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode Six of Season Eight and your host as always is Andy Davies. It's a very hot topic this week as we talk about artificial intelligence or A.I.  It's incredible technology, but what might it mean for kitchen and bathroom designers now and in the future. Is it going to take your job? Or is it going to be an invaluable tool that you can use to not only...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Five of Season Eight.  Today, we're looking at one of the most fundamental questions a potential customer can ask a kitchen or bathroom retailer - how much is it going to cost? More specifically, how do different retailers answer that question? How do they turn it into an effective conversation starter about price and b...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and today while you maybe anticipating a normal episode, we promise that we're going to totally exceed your expectations and deliver something beyond your imagination. Well, sort of. That's our topic for today anyway, we'll be talking about how kitchen and bathroom designers go beyond the client's brief and really stretch both their own de...

Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and this is Episode Three of Season Eight. And we're very pleased to say we have another in our not-particularly-organised series on digital marketing for kitchen and bathroom independent retailers. So we have the return of Josh Delane from The Wood Work s and we know how many of you have found his insight and very practical advi...

Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, yout host is Andy Davies and this is episode two of Season Eight and after last week's awards extravaganza - which, incidentally, we highly recommend listening to if you haven't heard it yet - we're getting back to basics. We're looking at a simple question - if you've done a new kitchen or bathroom for a client, and somewhere down the line, one of the products fa...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode One of Season Eight!  And we're kicking it off in style with this, our final special episode all about The kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2023 .   Andy Davies presents the show LIVE from the awards event in Cardiff and that means you can hear all the winners announced as it happened with top host Joel Dommett and Andy catches up with some of thos...

Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast and this, the penultimate episode in our special bonus series all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2023 . There's now less than a week to go before the big night in Cardiff on April 20th and the final episode in the series will be coming from the event itself where, hopefully, we'll be catching up with winners, judges, and any other industry luminaries we...

Welcome to another very special episode of The kbbreview Podcast all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2023 . In these bonus shows we're hearing from some of our 2023 judges and finalists and getting to know them and their stories ahead of the big ceremony in Cardiff on Thursday April the 20th. In this episode we meet an experienced hand…and a rising star. We have Phil Beechinor, from Ale...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is Episode Ten of Season Seven and, more importantly, that makes it the last full episode of this season. We're going to round it off with another awards bonus later in the week but, yes, this is the last full show before we take a bit of a break to, you know, do some proper work. But to round off Season Seven, we're off to German...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and this is a very special bonus episode of the show. We're talking to Martin Mongan, the CEO of the Bristan Group - he's an incredibly experienced player in the UK bathroom market of course so we're getting his views on what's happening in the sector. We'll also be catching up specifically on Heritage Bathrooms , who are very ki...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is episode nine of season seven and today we're talking about that mostly prickly of symbiotic  relationships - the one between  retailers and suppliers.  One of the most frequently used requests is that it should be  a 'partnership', but what exactly does that mean? What's the difference between a 'partnership' and a simple transactional placement of orders?...

Welcome to another of our very special bonus podcast episodes all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2023. In this series, we're building up to the event itself by meeting some of the finalists and judges that obviously play such an essential part in the biggest KBB industry gathering of the year. It's in Cardiff on Thursday April 20th and the room will be packed with retailers, designers,...

Are you a designer who sells or a salesperson that designs? That's the big question in this episode of The kbbreview Podcast. Your host as always is Andy Davies and we're asking how important is it for designers to have straight sales skills, and should they be trained in that specifically? Or should the creativity of the  designs themselves do all the selling? We're be talking to Jonny Wing from...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and this is Episode Seven of Season Seven. This week we're going on a journey. We're talking all about that most vital of experiences, the Customer Journey. It's a phrase that gets used a lot in kbb world but today we're meeting a bathroom retailer that has put it at the heart of its whole strategy. What does it mean? What are th...

Welcome to  another of our very special bonus episodes of The kbbreview Podcast all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2023. Between now and the big day in April we'll be meeting the judges, finalists and organisers that make up the biggest event in the kbb industry this year. The event itself in Cardiff on Thursday, April the 20th - and if you haven't booked your tickets yet then you are...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host is Andy Davies and this is episode six of season seven. Now, that's the official designation but in reality this is a very, very special show, as in the grand timeline of The kbbreview Podcast this is our 150th episode. We love round numbers on this show so what's the best way to mark this momentous occasion, this grand milestone? By telling some mucky s...

Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, this is episode five of season 7 and your host is Andy Davies. We're returning to the thorny subject of installation this week, thorny because the number of skilled, experienced kitchen and bathroom fitters out in the market continues to be as concerning as ever. It is clearly so essential to the survival of the UK kitchen and bathroom market that whether you're a...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, your host as always is Andy Davies and this is episode 4 of Season 7. This week we've got another great episode packed with digital marketing advice for kitchen and bathroom retailers from our guru Josh Delane from The Wood Works in London. In previous episodes we've talked about TikTok, Instagram and Getting the Most Bang For Your Buck and this week we're looking...

Welcome to the first of these very special bonus episodes of The kbbreview Podcast all about the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2023 . Between now and the big day in April we'll be meeting the judges, finalists and organisers that make up the biggest event in the kbb industry this year. And judging is going on as we speak - the business category judges are out on the road visiting all the finali...

Welcome to The kbbreview Podcast, this is episode three of season seven and your host is Andy Davies. Great episode this week talking about something that is a rare sighting within this sector - a bathroom retailer that has diversified into kitchens. It's much more typical to see kitchen retailers start a bathroom arm but much less common to see it the other way around. But in uncertain times ther...

Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast, this is Episode two of Season Seven and your host as always is Andy Davies. And this week we're talking about....tax. No, don't switch off because we're only a week away from January 31st when everyone who has to fill in a self-assessment needs to have pressed submit. So it seemed like a good excuse to talk to a kbb retail tax expert to find out how this sector ap...

Welcome to the kbbreview Podcast and this is a brand new season for a brand new year. It's Episode One of Season Seven, it's 2023 and your host is still Andy Davies, you're stuck with that we're afraid.  However, we've got such an interesting episode to kick the year off with as it doesn't get more important than getting the money off the customer and into your bank account. But when it comes to c...