To fulfil the modern householder’s increasing desire to create more individual, personalised kitchen spaces with clean lines and sleek, statement appliances, Amica has launched its first built-in ‘collection’. The trend of ‘banking’ appliances is on the up for easy access and a chic, refined finish with a designer feel and Amica’s Platinum collection provides a choice of coordinated built-in appliances, all finished in one coherent design of finger-mark resistant stainless steel with striking red illumination and black glass, ideal for sophisticated kitchens and contemporary open plan spaces.

Waiting for the kettle to boil is set to be a thing of the past with the new Minerva 3-in-1 Kettle Tap from Franke. This new, cutting edge tap, in Chrome or SilkSteel PVD, means boiling water is available instantly at the twist of a button. Whether it’s making tea or coffee, cooking spaghetti or poaching an egg, this tap makes life really easy.

Bellissimo Furniture is the first UK supplier to introduce a five-piece, made-to-measure kitchen range with curved doors to match.

Luxury interiors specialist Intervari® opened for business twelve months ago on Wigmore Street, an exclusive corner of London where the design elite of the kitchen world reside.

Intervari® are specialist, innovative and inspirational kitchen and bedroom designers, with the expertise to create individual and unique interior design solutions. They utilise the best from market leading brands such as Metris, Mobalco and Rot Punkt, complimented with cooking solutions provided by cutting-edge appliance manufacturers Gaggenau, Miele, Sub-Zero and Wolf.

Ellis Furniture has added a Gloss Cream option to the Lexington Gloss kitchen range. Already available in white, burgundy and black, the new units are teamed with flush inset doors from the Intrigue Gloss Olivewood range and finished with Lexington chrome sculptured handles, honeysuckle glass splashbacks and African black granite.

The beauty of Cucina Colore is the way it has the design flexibility to create an individual look that oozes sophistication and individuality without the designer price tag.

Newest features to the range include internal and external curves for base and wall units within the Lastra collection in popular finishes; white, cream and pergamon gloss and for Futura handleless, external curves in all 6 gloss colours; white, pergamon, cream, cappuccino, black and burgundy.

Reginox’s new Adriatico sink is the latest addition to the company’s Regi-Granite range.

A stunning granite sink that will add a contemporary edge to any kitchen design, the Adriatico combines an angular bowl with a minimalist drainer featuring simple straight lines that perfectly complement the sink’s understated design. It is available in five colours – Alaska, Croma, Colorado, Titanium and Onyx.

With excellent value for money combined with high performance and a fresh ergonomic design, the new Precision Plus stainless steel sink range from Carron Phoenix is suited to a broad reach of customers and kitchen styles.

Offering an uncluttered feel with changes made to the bowl shapes and the drainer pattern without losing the capacious bowl sizes, the slim ledge at the back of the sink neatly houses the tap.

GROHE has launched a revolutionary recipe for culinary perfection with the GROHE K7 kitchen tap. Take a generous serving of functionality and spice it up with a touch of minimalist design – these new GROHE kitchen taps are not only practical but make a style statement in any kitchen.

As a result of the growing demand for sinks featuring its award-winning IF flat-edge technology in premium quality 18/10 stainless steel, BLANCO has introduced 20 new models. The flat edge gives the appearance of laying almost flush with the worktop, a concept which was launched to international acclaim, winning awards for its combination of appealing aesthetics and practical hygiene benefits.

As worktops are usually chosen once the door choice has been made, a well put together kitchen concept is vital so that the doors and worktop work together in harmony. EGGER’s new range of worktops aims to make the process as simple as possible by presenting door and worktop combination ideas together for the first time.

Helping homeowners to create that all-essential individual style statement in the heart of the home, Burbidge offers a range of contemporary kitchen doors, as well as a stunning collection of more traditional and classical options.

Parapan® is the ultimate material for today’s contemporary kitchens. A high quality, high gloss acrylic with almost ‘mirror like’ reflective qualities it can be thermoformed into dramatic curves for statement islands and cut to any size for bespoke cupboards and drawers. In keeping with the trend for clean lines and sleek surfaces Parapan® can be fitted with invisible finger pulls or almost any style of handle.

Helping adherence to the Building Regulations in terms of water consumption, and adding to the list of “green” initiatives in the home, Franke’s flow restrictor is a really simple tool.

Crestwood’s Sourcebook brings an appealing and elegant new addition to its long successful range of timber shaker doors by adding a new curved door offering along with common door accessories cornice, pelmet and plinth. These timeless classic doors and accessories allow your customer to appreciate the finer things in life, whilst maximizing their kitchen design. Looking good at the end of a straight run, or combined to create a round island unit these doors ooze style and are a must for any kitchen specifier/designer and your customer.

Timber drawers are often seen as the signature of a quality in-frame kitchen and Mereway Kitchens new in-frame Shaker collection is no exception. As the first to feature in their popular English Revival range, solid timber dovetail drawer boxes will be available as standard as well as the latest fully adjustable soft close runner.

The brand new Calgary Oak from Ellis Furniture strikes a perfect balance between traditional and contemporary design. Constructed from solid oak with a traditional in-frame door, Calgary Oak is brought up to date with Monterey nickel bar handles and glass inset counter top units.

One of the UK’s top distributors of kitchen products, DK Distribution, has put together an exciting and comprehensive range of door style called the Vie Collection.

Eleven doors cover the choices from traditional to simple and highly contemporary. Different colours, finishes and wood grains are available with carefully chosen handles, a choice of 14 spectacular worktops and colour coordinated high specification carcasses.

With the on-going design trend for slim-line looks and a more communicate way of living in open plan spaces, Pronorm’s Proline 128 handle-less kitchen range fits the bill perfectly. There is no visual clutter of handles and the large unbroken expanses of surface on the horizontal and vertical planes cut a very contemporary look, while being easy to care for.

UK retailers and fitters are at last offered a genuine choice of concave doors in vinyl, now that Bellissimo has launched a range of concave curved options in 50 colours and woodgrains. These are complemented by a similarly comprehensive series of S-shapes.

More of the same; which is to continually develop our furniture in order to maintain our market leading levels of specification at realistic prices.

“Our most popular furniture is what I like to call our ‘transitional design’; where traditional meets contemporary. Quite often, this sees us blend beautiful natural timbers, from the well known to the more unusual, with painted finishes. This is a look that we have become very well known for along with our bespoke manufacturing flexibility that delights our dealers”.

The success of Edwin Loxley over the last 11 years would suggest that their Founder and Managing Director, Joe Cavani, is very well placed to give an overview of where the UK kitchen industry is heading for 2011.

“I very much get the feeling that when the going gets tough even people at the high end of the market place look for substance in a product rather than simply buying into a brand based on marketing perceptions alone.

Blum does away with fixed shelves in base units. Everything stored, at whatever level must be instantly and easily accessible by installing full-extension well organised drawers and internal pull-outs with interior division systems like ORGA-LINE and flexible gallery dividers.

Smart looks, perfect cornering and precision engineering, the Arena Style Le Mans storage solution from PWS has them all. Featuring the latest superior Arena Style specification, Le Mans eliminates unnecessary lifting, bending or reaching as the system brings the shelves out when the door is opened.

Hill’s Panel Products have extended their range of wirework with a new corner solution and waste bin. Designed and manufactured in Italy they offer the perfect balance between designer flair and quality.

Making optimal use of awkward corners has always been a challenge in any kitchen; Fly Moon is the latest entrant into this market, offering an intuitive and ergonomic solution to corner storage, featuring two adjustable and fully balanced pivoting shelves complete with hardwearing melamine bases.

Crestwood’s Sourcebook launches a new intermediate range of soft close pull out storage solutions to fit between its existing chrome wire and Dolce Vita ranges.

The three ranges now consist of an entry-level full extension chrome wire range, top of the range Dolce Vita and the new soft close range, offering the most complete kitchen storage solution on the market. All come with full extension pullout larders, base pullouts and corner storage units as well as numerous options and accessories.

The functional nature of the UK storage market has been shaken up by the stylish Italian solutions exclusively available through NESP Ltd.

The Compagnucci range is manufactured in Ancona in central Italy, with its typical stylish good looks, the range consists of chrome or chrome & glass storage solutions. Distinguishing details include cushioned soft close runner mechanisms, motorised pull outs & improved functionality to optimise available space and ease of fitting.

Now available from Herbert Direct , the base pull-out for a curved door is a welcome addition to our range of Sige wirework . The mechanism will suit a standard 300mm wide cupboard and with the special front fixing bracket, will accommodate any door radius.

LDL Components Ltd is now its seventh year as one of the UK’s leading distributors of high quality furniture fittings, specializing in supplying kitchen and bedroom manufacturers and retailers. LDL is the sole UK agent for PEKA, major UK partner and distributor for Wesco and Furnipart, and major distributor covering the whole of the UK for BLUM.

There is no doubt that challenging times lie ahead for all retailers as the full impact of the cost cutting measures put in place by the new government filter through the economy. From January next year VAT will rise to 20% and whilst this may create a mini-boom as customers bring forward their home improvement plans to save the extra VAT it may mean a dip in orders after the January sales.

Bespoke Kitchen manufactures Edwin Loxley have experienced record sales for their Luxurious bespoke manufactured kitchens despite what continues to be for many, turbulent trading times.

Mereway Kitchens; one of the UK’s most prestigious furniture manufacturers, has recently relaunched its English Revival in-frame range which offers beautifully crafted feature units enhanced by an array of robust, practical and quality storage solutions.

Inhouse represents quality UK Independent kitchen showrooms that provide stunning concepts from Italian Aster Cucine and top quality but affordable priced Schüller kitchens.

Leading sink manufacturer, Franke, continually strives to be at the forefront of design and innovation and push the boundaries of technology! The company’s new products have been designed to build on the success of previous portfolios and are user-focused, encompass better hygiene, have updated aesthetics and streamlined profiles.

Westin are the only UK Company manufacturing and supplying custom-built domestic kitchen extractors.  Westin has become synonymous with all that‘s best in Britain; outstanding craftsmanship, superb reliability, excellent performance and caring service.  

Westin's wholly bespoke service gives designers the flexibility to create functional yet beautiful living spaces.