Hot tub retailers are being urged to highlight their achievements by submitting their entries for the 2015 BISHTA Awards ahead of the November deadline and judging period later this year. Gold Awards and industry recognition for multiple categories are once again up for grabs to companies that ensure their entry is delivered before the November 7 cut off date. Winners will … [Read more...]
Vita-l rebirth
Vita Spa has been transformed in recent years with a manufacturing rebirth that has produced record UK retailing results. HTR investigates how this has impacted on dealers. For more than three decades Vita Spa built up a quality manufacturing reputation for providing comfort and value hot tubs that resulted in constantly improving UK sales, thanks to a growing band of … [Read more...]
Inaugural Innovation Awards at Interbad
Visitors to Interbad 2014 in Germany who cast their vote in the inaugural Innovation Awards will get the chance to win a luxury wellness weekend prize for two just over the border in Austria. Showcasing spas technology, swimming pools, sauna, physiotherapy and wellness, the international exhibition, running from October 21 to 24, at Messe, Stuttgart, also has an additional … [Read more...]
Wet leisure guru hails success
Wet leisure sales and marketing guru Dorian Davies has welcomed news that Hot Tub Cinema’s inaugural screening in Bristol was a sell-out success this week after tickets were snapped up in just a day. Over 100 people donned their bathing costumes on Wednesday night at the Paintworks Creative Space; before taking the plunge in 20 inflatable tubs for the screening of hit comedy … [Read more...]
Tax hike pledge to plug debt blackhole
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has promised to plug the blackhole of Britain’s debt by increasing taxes if his Liberal Democrat party gain full government power at the next election. During the Lib Dem Party conference in Glasgow Mr Clegg slammed the Conservative’s plans to help workers to take home more of their pay, by reducing the tax burden on 30 million people, as … [Read more...]
CBI highlights retailing sales growth
Record wholesale levels and high retailing figures on the high-street are continuing to secure positive volumes, according to survey findings that have been revealed by the Confederation of British Industries (CBI). In an autumn boost for the wet leisure industry and the UK economy, currently one of the fastest growing in the G7 community, 42 per cent of retailers indicated … [Read more...]
PM pledges bumper ‘£7billion’ tax cut policy
Prime Minister David Cameron made a bumper tax cut pledge to allow 30million people to retain more of their hard earned money during a rousing speech at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. The Prime Minister gave a major boost to future consumer spending and hot tub retailing prosperity with a promise to ‘hardworking people’ to raise the tax-free allowance from … [Read more...]
Passion Spas retailers gain triple preview
Passion Spas retailers were provided with a preview of three new models that will be hitting the major exhibition stands in the USA and Europe before rolling out to dealership showrooms across the globe. During the September Dealer Conference at its newly-launched North American factory in Holland, Michigan, Passion Spas gave 30 of its USA-based retailing representatives a … [Read more...]
Tax rate boost and benefits blitz
Chancellor George Osborne will be abolishing the 55 per cent tax rate applied to pension pots left by savers to their children and has announced plans for freezing benefits to millions of families if the Tories win the next election. The dramatic pension’s tax move, highlighted during the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, follows the Chancellor’s scrapping of the … [Read more...]
Leisure Industry Week celebrates 25 years
Leisure Industry Week will celebrate its 25th anniversary when it hosts multiple WhatSpa? award-winning hot tub brand Caldera Spas and its exclusive UK distributor Certikin, along with specialist outdoor retailers at Birmingham NEC. Founded in 1989, Leisure Industry Week proclaims itself to be the leading exhibition for the out of home leisure industry and will be running … [Read more...]