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Manufacturer enhances campaigning credentials
Booming hot tub and swim spa manufacturer Coast Spas has enhanced its campaigning credentials for pedigree production following the appointment of Executive Vice President of Operations Jatinder Sidhu to the US Technical Advisory Group. As part of his involvement with the US Technical Advisory Group (USTAG for IEC/TC61), Jatinder, who is known as JT, will […]
Opportunity for hot tub industry comments
Hot tub dealers and wet leisure specialists are being invited by BISHTA to provide their feedback ahead of the final development of one of the latest domestic spa and hot tub standards later this year. The domestic spa and hot tub standard (EN 17125) is now available for public consultation, known as a ‘CEN Public […]
Global title holders attract retailing ‘superstar’
Wet leisure product powerhouse Certikin is aiming to build on the momentum gained from a prestigious Caldera Spas top global dealer title after attracting a retailing ‘superstar’ to its flourishing British hot tub network. Award-winning ‘Retailer of Excellence’ Jane Veysey, pictured, has been so blown away by the enhanced state-of-the-art Caldera Spas Utopia Series range that […]
Top spa retailers boost margins with savvy FX strategies
Despite a series of record years of UK sales in hot tubs and swim spas, the threat of Sterling weakness looms large for many retailers, who have seen their margins squeezed by worsening currency rates. The pound has fallen again against the dollar and the euro after the way has been cleared for Theresa May […]
Hot praise for SPATEX organisers
SPATEX organisers have been swimming in a strong current of praise from leading hot tub and pool specialists after the success of the 21st ‘coming of age’ edition of the wet leisure extravaganza in Coventry. A large number of companies have already committed to the 22nd edition after many exhibitors reported that the latest […]
Kenneth Jacuzzi, inspiration for in-home hydrotherapy, dies at age 75
Jacuzzi Group Worldwide offers its deepest condolences to the wife and family of Ken Jacuzzi on the occasion of his passing last week. Ken Jacuzzi’s childhood illness in the 1950s was the inspiration for the development of the first in-home hydrotherapy pump by his father, Candido Jacuzzi. Candido and his brothers founded what became Jacuzzi Group Worldwide, to this […]