Swiss appliance manufacturer V-ZUG has celebrated its 100th year of trading and making models in the city of Zug. According to the company, V-ZUG is the market leader in Switzerland with 50% of households using the appliance brand. V-ZUG took steps into the export market live years ago and the [...]

Designer and creative director for the May Design Series, Ab Rogers has described his vision for the May Design Series, as an exhibition with a city-scape environment. The May Design Series features four individual shows; kbb LDN, the Are Show, DX and lnteriors LDN, brought under one umbrella. It takes [...]

At the recent ISH exhibition, chief executive of Grohe David Haines reported on the company’s financial performance in 2012, which had seen 21% growth year-on-year to € 1.4bn in 2012. He said: “We can be proud of this in these turbulent times.” He continued, explaining the company had €285m available [...]

An assumption of the Green Deal – once market barriers are removed, there will be a flood of demand for energy efficiency measures in consumer homes – is overly simplistic, according to research from the UK Energy Centre. Interim findings of a survey cast doubt on whether this expected flood [...]

CAD software manufacturer 20-20 Technologies has appointed Mark Goldstein as chief executive officer succeeding Tom Tieman who was made interim CEO in November 2012. Goldstein was CEO of Abaqus, a provider of computer engineering software until its acquisition by Dassault Systems. He continued as CEO of Dassault Systems and sewed [...]

The Dining with the Stars charity dinner hosted by five Michelin star chefs, all of whom cooked at The Cube by Electrolux, raised over £100,000 for the Bobby Moore fund.  The idea for the event was bom during a charity lunch in The Cube by Electrolux in September. Daniel Clifford [...]

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints from B&Q over a Wren ad which it challenged for being a “misleading’ comparison table that couldn’t be verified. On the Wren Kitchens website it included a page headed The Wren Standard, with text stating “We have assigned a value to each [...]

Manufacturer of food waste and hot water taps InSinkErator has appointed Ashley Munden to the position of managing director Europe. Munden was previously sales and marketing director, reporting to Joe Ferrara who is relocating to the USA to take up the role of vice president, International for InSinkErator. Joe Ferrara [...]

Distributor of boards, doors and fittings Hill’s Panel Products has appointed Keith Wardrope as its managing director. He succeeds Stephen Hill who, together with his brother Martin, will take on a joint chairman role. Wardrobe has over 25 years’ experience in the kbb market and has worked with the company [...]

The UK has achieved the largest increase in tumover in 2012 for Rotpunkt, reported the company from its fiist UK sales conference. The conference was hosted by Matt Phillips, head of Rotpunkt UK Sales and James Kidd, sales manager, and attracted 100 delegates from the company’s 70 retailers at venues [...]