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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One In Four Adults Urinate In Public Pools

A Swimming Teachers’ Association survey has revealed a quarter of public pool users do not take a shower before entering the water, with women being the biggest offenders. The survey, of more than 2,000 swimmers, also revealed that one in four people have urinated in a public swimming pool, with one in ten confessing they had done it deliberately; men aged 18-34 years were cited as the worst culprits this time. STA is one of the world’s largest swim teaching and lifesaving organisation, and delivers the highest quality training across four key business areas – swimming teaching, lifesaving, first aid and leisure management.

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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 Ā£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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US Show Returns To New Orleans

  After a nine year absence, the Pool Spa and Patio Expo returns to New Orleans taking place November 6-8, at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana USA, with the educational conference taking place November 3-8. Online registration is available at www.PoolSpaPatio.com/ attendee, where information is constantly accessible. Registering in advance will save […]

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Humphries New Topline Sales Head

Topline Electronics Limited has appointed Barry Humphries as sales director, heading up our sales team at the UK’s largest manufacturer of swimming pool chemical control equipment and ancillary products. Barry joins Topline with 30 years’ experience in the swimming pool industry, working in both the public and private sector, and most recently Siemens, one of […]

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Thermapool On The Way To Green Glory

Pool insulation specialist, Thermapool, has won a Green Apple Environment Award in the national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities. The company, based in Essex, competed against more than 500 other nominations and will be presented with their Green Apple Award at a presentation ceremony in the House of Commons in November. […]

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