
The BHETA housewares committee met last week at the impressive new offices of LSA in Richmond. Thank you to Dan Roberts and the LSA team for hosting the meeting.The role of the Housewares Committee is to represent and protect BHETA members’ interests, and to help guide the BHETA team’s activities.The Committee can also help BHETA members by answering your questions. Any member can contact the Housewares Sector Manager, @Seema Grantham, with an industry-related question. Seema will confidentially put your question to the group, and then provide back a summary of the Committee’s feedback.During the meeting, the group had lively discussions on issues which will help the BHETA team’s work, including:
- Market update and issues impacting suppliers
- Extended producer responsibility and supporting our industry
- Industry approach to small parcel imports which bypass regulation
- Carbon reporting solutions
- Artificial intelligence and benefits to producers
- Face to face events
- The outlook for 2025
Thank you to:
- Jane Mason – Chair
- Kate O’Neil – CCO, Rayware
- Paul Shelley – MD Haus Marketing & Distribution
- Rob Jones – MD Horwood
- Richard Walker – MD, Eddingtons,
- Claire Whalley-Livesey – MD, Meyer Group
- Dan Roberts – CCO, LSA
- Steve Foley – MD, Minky
- Tanith Sellicks – Founder & Director Pure Tabletop
- Seema Grantham – BHETA
- Stephen Richardson – BHETA
- Will Jones – BHETA.
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