The Generation Gap

The pool and spa sector is on the brink of a skills crisis as an ageing workforce retires; leaving a durth of specialist knowledge in the water leisure sector. Increasingly urgent searches, in situations vacant advertisements, for suitably experienced swimming pool and hot tub engineers, is the writing on the wall for pool and spa […]

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Rain, Rain Go Away!

Alex Kemsley, managing director of the Waterstream Group, based near Gatwick in West Sussex, is so confident of an Indian Summer, that he is guaranteeing the sunshine for anyone who buys a £6k plus pool or a hot tub from them between now and the official end of British Summer Time – and paying them in hard cash if he’s wrong!

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Best Of British

The eyes of the world will be on Britain this summer as the country celebrates a unique combination of events with the coinciding of
both the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics.
The great British weather permitting; the summer of 2012 promises to be a ray of sunshine amid the recent years of
prevailing economic storm clouds.

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Pollet Welcome Porter And New Pool And Spa Era

The Pollet Pool Group is looking ahead to a new era for its UK pool
division following the appointment of Carl Porter as UK divisional
manager.
A pool industry stalwart with three decades experience, it is a case of poacher turns gamekeeper for Carl who cut his pool building teeth in Aquabuild, the multi-award winning Porter family swimming pool construction business before a spell with Cresta Leisure.

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Waterco Ticks All ISO Boxes

International water treatment and filtration products manufacturer and distributor Waterco Ltd has capped its 30th anniversary with the achievement of the ISO 9001:2008 certification. Issued by Moody International Certification Ltd, ISO 9001:2008 is for corporate and overall operating systems covering the manufacturing and distribution of equipment and all other related  products in the swimming pool, spa, water conditioning, water treatment as […]

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Meteoric Pool And Spa Career Climb

Kris German joined Devon-based Harris Pools as a temporary summer helper after completing a degree in Business Studies at University and
taking a year, travelling the southern hemisphere.
He could hardly have known, within just a few years, he would have earned himself a stake as a shareholder of the pool and spa company.

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Hand In Glove Quality

Up against three lower-priced potential suppliers, Aquatrac was the pool cover of choice for an Essex customer who wanted a quality product at best value rather than lowest price.

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National Leisure Undertake Benelux Tour

Representatives of the 26 member companies that make up the UK-based buying consortium of National Leisure gathered in Amsterdam recently accompanied by Pool and Spa Scene editor, Christina Connor. The group visited the premises of Interhiva and Starline in Holland and Belgium to find out more about the products National Leisure already stocks and to learn about many new products they could potentially add to their 2012 offering.

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