Pans prove to be an essential part of every kitchen, but with so many types of cookware available, it can be a challenge finding the right fit for your needs.  If you are working in a professional culinary environment, the necessity to have durable and high quality products is even more crucial.  If you are looking for superior cookware, but also want to get it for the right price; keep reading!   Pan Construction Traditional [...]

Having a healthy, protein-rich meal that’s easy to prepare is a welcomed treat … not only will this recipe be delicious but since it’s so quick to prepare you’ll have plenty of time left over to haggle for a great deal :) This low-cal, low fat family pleaser can be easily made on the hob. Use your Swiss Diamond frying pan to beautifully brown the chicken to brown and create a luxurious, flavoursome sauce.   Prep [...]

Mandarina Duck is an Italian fashion brand that is most commonly known for their designer luggage and travel accessories, but really develops so much more. With headquarters in Bologna, Italy and branches in Paris, Barcelona, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Vienna, London and Malaysia, Mandarina Duck designs beautiful and functional carriers and accessories for him, for her, for travel or for work.   The History Paolo Trento and Pietro Mannato had been friends since childhood. They founded Plastimoda [...]

A company name is only one part of the equation when it comes to naming your business. If you plan on generating business online, the other factor is your domain name. And if you’re an online business like we are, you can imagine how critical this is! We may have learned the hard way, but we’ve spent the past month correcting the direction and brand of our business to be very clear about what we [...]

We came across this really well-written article about haggling from Martin Lewis and the team at MoneySavingExpert.com. We love how they start it… When it comes to haggling, don’t think it need be in backstreet bazaars. You can get £100s off by haggling at stores including John Lewis, Comet and New Look or call centres for broadband, digital TV, car insurance and more. Those in the know save £100s, and the very worst case scenario [...]

It’s funny how society works. Shopping is all about supply and demand. On one hand, every retailer wants to sell their wares, and consumers wants to get the products they need. Where it gets difficult is negotiating a final price. In developing economies, negotiated prices are the dominant form of price setting for consumer purchases. What makes first world nations so different? Why has haggling all but disappeared from our everyday shopping behaviour? If one person wants [...]

I asked our buying team if they had suggestions for our blog, any products that they thought would benefit from having more information written about them, to explain how cool they are. James quickly suggested I take a closer look at the Panasonic MW-10 Multimedia Player. I thought, “Um … it’s a digital photo frame. People know how to use them.” Upon closer inspection I saw that it had a 9″ screen, an SD slot, [...]

Let’s take a detailed look at the Tonino Lamborghini watch collection, as it’s a brand that provides fabulous timepieces but does have some ambiguity around it. The Tonino Lamborghini watch collection is as spectacular as its automobile namesake, although they are not made by or have any relationship with Automobili Lamborghini S.P.A., the company behind the legendary sports car. The history of the watch collection is beautiful …

Today saw us launch our first above the line advertising campaign! The Metro is a great daily publication so we’re very excited to have a full-page advert in it. Sarah, our lovely and talented graphic designer, put in a lot of work on it. We think she did a great job of highlighting what is is that we’re all about … what do you think of it?

Whether you have worked in retail or not, you likely know that retailers set the pricing based on the ‘rules’ of their pricing model. But in our opinion, these rules are flawed and don’t reflect the changing needs of consumers. Let’s look at why we feel that way and what we’re doing about it… The most common pricing rule used by retailers is a ‘keystone mark-up’. This results in a mark-up that is usually 50% [...]