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If you are working for a retailer, supplier or manufacturer that is a THIIS member company, then you are eligible to access the Member's Area of the THIIS website. In the Member's Area you will find…
- Magazine stories from past issues
- All the weekly trade email bulletins for the past six months
- Views and comments from Industry colleagues in ‘Talking Shop'
- Extra news items and articles not carried either in the magazine or on the weekly trade email bulletins
Simply use the Trade Login section on the right to access the Member's Area.
Not registered for the member's area yet?
If your email address is not registered with us yet, then your registration will not be accepted. If that is the case and and you areworking for a THIIS member company, simply email us to let us know and we will set up an account for you.
New to THIIS?
If this is the first time you have visited the website, you might not know too much about THIIS. In existence for over 10 years, THIIS is used by the majority of the pro-active businesses in the marketplace to keep in touch with what's happening in the marketplace and to let others know what they are up to.
THIIS member companies get:
- A 56 page monthly magazine
- A weekly trade email bulletin which can be sent to as many team members as they wish
- Access to the member's area of the website – another site, behind this one
- Reduced rates on promotions and services such as recruitment advertising
Suppliers also get the opportunity to become a Website Partner with THIIS and have their products visible on the site. The site has generated over 1.2 million page views in the past 12 months
Retailers get a free entry in the ‘Find a Retailer' section of the website
Contact us today for a full information pack, including a sample copy of the magazine and trade email bulletin.
Just a few of the many articles in recent issues of the magazine:
It's always interesting to find out the background to new people who enter the marketplace. Talking to William and Maggie Carver, who bought a retail business a couple of years ago, it was clear that their backgrounds were a little different to some starting off in our industry….
Imagine producing and selling thousands of products, none of which will ever see the light of day. Many will be in cupboards and on shelves, while others will be in place, ready to solve a huge potential problem but will never be needed. A few will be used for training purposes, but most will stay in their wrappers. That's the scenario at one business that has grown steadily over the past few years and that is now looking to capitalise on some recent legislation while, at the same time, build a stronger range for the future….
It is often said that the difference between the Wanna-
be and the entrepreneur is that wanna-be's obsess about ideas, perfect plans and lucky breaks, whereas entrepreneurs obsess about implementation, doing what they're gifted at and delegating the rest. Think of a well known entrepreneur and there is a good chance Richard Branson, James Dyson or Alan Sugar will be some of first names that come to mind, closely followed by Peter Jones and his fellow Dragons' or perhaps even Nicola Horlick. Younger THIIS members may even count a few BBC Apprentice winners among their commercial idols too.
We have a number of businesses that are very much centred on the family. Most evolved as family outfits after sons and daughters have grown up getting involved and then taken the reigns. In the case of a Wrexham based company, it was very much about identifying a business opportunity that might eventually give a number of family members the option to get involved. A couple of years down the line after the launch, that aim has been achieved. With a new name as well, there are plenty of things happening at Healthcare Matters….
2010 is the year that David Morris and the team at
Osprey Healthcare hope to look back on as a period of sustained growth. The company launched only a few months ago, but it's a familiar team working with products that they know very well. The background to the emergence of the company is interesting too and here we find out more about a new outfit with more experience in the marketplace than many others….
First Argo, then B&Q and now Asda. And, as the ASDA story was breaking, Homebase joined the heavyweight retailers piling into the homecare products marketplace. We talked to Dermot McLaughlin who has been instrumental in getting a range of products on the shelf in one of the UK's biggest retailers….
The Co-op is the latest in what is becoming quite a long line of well known retailers to take a look at the marketplace. You won't find the products in the stores, but a comprehensive website and catalogue is sure to add pressure on established outfit. Not only that, but this is just one of the many different independent Co-op groups and so there could be a number of other entrants to the market in the future….
 The trend over the past few years has been to develop ‘one stop' showrooms, filled with every type of product. One company is going in a different direction and has just opened something slightly different. It's a ‘one stop' choice for anyone looking to get up to the next floor level…..
Investing in a business for eight years without making a penny profit could drive some people to distraction. However, Mike Williams of Ableworld hasn't been overly worried. Having said that, he wasn't going to let the generation of the first profit go without a suitable announcement….
Our marketplace hasn't always been that good at attracting people with different skill sets in the past and so it's always interesting when someone pops up who has made a big jump in terms of where he's been before. Bearing in mind what's happening in our marketplace right now, when the jump is from the high street retailing sector, then it's even more intriguing…..
There are quite a few companies in our marketplace that tend to hide their light under the proverbial bushel and one that may well fall into that category is Easibathe. The main reason we hear little from these companies is almost always down to time, but when Easibathe carried off a prestigious prize a few weeks ago, we persuaded the boss to take a coffee break and spend 20 minutes on the phone with us…..
New entrants to the marketplace come in all shapes and sizes, but I guess that it's those making more of a splash about being the new kids on the block that get the attention. The opening of a new showroom in Evesham a couple of weeks ago did make rather a splash, with extensive PR and a high profile opening event. I went along to see what all the fuss was about…….
From table top business in the kitchen to a multi-million pound enterprise. It's a dream that many people have but few achieve. Bruce and Jackie Grave have experienced the journey though and recently a grand opening of a rather impressive new headquarters suggests that they and the rest of the team at Impey are responsible for something a little special…..
How much is a brand worth? Quite a bit if it's the right brand. Stannah has spent considerable sums on their brand over the years and now the company is looking for mobility showroom businesses that might like to capitalise on the years of awareness building……
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