Voting Smashes Through 1,000 Mark!

Following a record-breaking number of entries, voting is neck and neck in the UK Pool & Spa Awards.

UK swimming personality Stephen Parry will be presenting the UK Pool & Spa Awards 2014 at the Crowne Plaza, Birmingham, NEC, on Thursday February 20,. An Olympic bronze medallist and a BBC sports commentator, Stephen is no stranger to the pool and spa sector and runs his own mobile pool business, Total Swimming.

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Italian Pool Building Dips By Eight Per Cent

The Italian pool and spa sector is stuck in a deep recession. Facing considerable cost increases for both the population and industry in energy costs and tax burdens, the downturn looks set to continue. The knock-on effect has been a fall in employment as companies struggle to recover debt or gain credit. The situation has […]

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Stress Remains Primary Motivator For Spa Visits

Over two-thirds of UK Health Spa owners had a positive outlook for 2013 and they were clear on what they needed to do to achieve growth, a survey designed to coincide with the recent National Spa Week, has confirmed. The research, commissioned by Groupon UK polled a sample of UK Spa, Health & Beauty business […]

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Success Breeds Success For UK Pool Team

Success is breeding success for the Seko UK water leisure team. Fundamental to that success is the development and marketing of Seko’s superior auto dosing systems that have brought with them, sustained sales performance. The majority of Seko UK customers are involved in pool construction and the feedback we get is that we offer very […]

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Finishing Touches To Pollet Trade Showroom

Carl Porter, left, and Michael Witney are putting the finishing touches to a new trade-only showroom at Pollet’s Newbury base.

The Pollet Pool team is putting the finishing touches to a new trade-only showroom at their base in Newbury, Berkshire. As well as their flagship Pentair and Haywood products, the display area highlights a working model of the Zeus spa from Pollet’s Poseidon range and copings and surround paving from PPG’s exclusive SRBA range.

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Proudly Bearing The Made In Britain Label

Even though it is a small company, Intopool invests heavily in research and development to ensure the products that bear the Intopool name are of a high quality and can proudly proclaim to be ā€˜Made In Britain’. Run by husband and wife team, Henry and Juliette Epsom, each of the Intopool products are designed with […]

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Rich Pool Of National Talent

When it comes to the challenging sector of swimming pool design, it pays to bring in the services of a specialist builder from the outset, preferably at the drawing board.

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Sun Fails To Shine In Summer-Less Benelux

These are stressful times for companies in the BenElux area that ironically are largely dealing in stress-relieving products, such as pools and spas. Of course, the economic climate is an important negative factor, but an even more important role is played by the general sense of doom that paralyses consumers. People tend to postpone the […]

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Spanish Pull Together To Combat Economic Crisis

  Plunged into a deep economic crisis, Spanish pool and spa companies are focusing on refurbishment and exports as a way to stem the fall of sales in the home market. Biding their time and hoping to emerge stronger from the current situation, the Spanish pool and spa market investing heavily in research, development and […]

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