What More UK, the Lancashire housewares manufacturer, and owner of the well-known brand Wham, pride themselves on constantly innovating to suit market needs. They have a great capacity for innovation thanks to their tooling team being completely in house, which gives the ultimate flexibility for creating new to market products. This year’s huge development is bakeware […]
The Inspired Home Show, Chicago’s leading international trade show, has always been a great platform for What More UK, the Lancashire housewares manufacturer, and owner of the well-known brand Wham. With up to 200,000 visitors over three days, 1,700 home and housewares companies exhibit new products and build relationships with buyers from more than 140 countries. […]
What More UK, the Lancashire housewares manufacturer, and owner of the well-known brand Wham, are known as a company for giving back to the communities around them, including colleague teams completing the Three Peaks challenge to raise funds. Recently Company Director Tony Grimshaw was invited to tour Healthier Heroes in Burnley, a veteran’s charity established […]
What More UK, the Lancashire housewares manufacturer, and owner of the well-known brand Wham, has been a regular exhibitor at the annual Ambiente tradeshow for more than 20 years. What More will return this week with some outstanding product ranges, sure to take the show by storm. They will once again take two stands, Hall […]
What More UK, the Lancashire housewares manufacturer, and owner of the well-known brand Wham, was delighted to have an extended range of the award winning PushPan® round cake tins showcased on QVC Germany this week. QVC is one of the 10 largest mail-order companies in Germany, with a market share of 50%. With the bakeware […]
In very positive news for the UK retail market, the online brand of high street retailer Wilko has been rescued by the owner of The Range, CDS Superstores Ltd in a multi million pound deal. Just yesterday the online store came back online – and the very first product bought by keen shoppers was the […]
What More, manufacturers of the popular household brand Wham, produce millions of plastic goods per year. They are a responsible manufacturer, and have a fully recycled range as well as producing goods which mean other, non-recyclable coverings don’t have to be used – such as reusable plastic lunch boxes. Local primary school Hyndburn Park have […]
What More UK, manufacturer of housewares brand Wham, are making great strides on integrating their latest acquisition Firsteel Ltd into the What More Group. One thing that has impressed the team at Firsteel is the success of the What More apprenticeship programme, and what it brings to the company. What More operate in a specialist industry requiring traditional engineering skills. […]
What More UK, manufacturer of housewares brand Wham, are very pleased to announce the acquisition of Firsteel Ltd, which is another fantastic milestone in the successful and eventful history of the company. Under the Wham brand, What More are the undisputed UK brand and market leader in plastic housewares, storage and garden products. This brand leadership has been achieved by heavy investment in people, product development, state of the art manufacturing machinery, and investment in infrastructure and […]
What More UK, manufacturer of the well-known Lancashire housewares brand Wham, has been a regular exhibitor at the annual Ambiente tradeshow for more than 20 years. This year What More returned with two stands to make the most of the huge opportunity, and called it a great success! Ambiente is the leading international consumer goods […]
What More UK, the Lancashire housewares manufacturer, and owner of the well-known brand Wham, is delighted to showcase an extended range of the award winning PushPan® round cake tins at the upcoming trade shows Ambiente, in Frankfurt, and The Inspired Home Show in Chicago. PushPan® is a favourite of Mary Berry of “Great British Bake […]
What More UK, the Lancashire housewares manufacturer, and owner of the well-known brand Wham, has been a regular exhibitor at the annual Ambiente tradeshow for more than 20 years. Following cancellation of the event in 2022, the Frankfurt trade show is back to full strength, and What More will return with two stands to make […]
What More UK, manufacturers of bakeware and housewares, recently hosted a visit from GCSE Design and Technology students from Withington Girls’ School in Manchester, who have an interest in becoming engineers of the future. The students have been studying designing and making principles, including a broad range of design processes, materials, techniques and equipment. One […]
The team at What More UK regularly donate to charity, and completing their latest challenge enabled them to smash their target of £15,000 for Derian House, the local young people’s hospice. Through completing the National Three Peaks Challenge, the Wham Team have raised an outstanding £18,846 for the charity. Last year, staff took on the […]
As part of their aim to raise £15,000 for Derian House, the local young people’s hospice, through completing the National Three Peaks Challenge, the Wham Foundation have generously donated £5000 towards their total. Last year, staff took on the tough Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to raise money for Accrington Stanley Community Trust, and raised a […]
What More UK, manufacturers of bakeware and housewares, operate in a specialist industry requiring traditional skills. They pride themselves on their Apprenticeship programme, and their latest recruit is award winning. What More are in a position of expansion and growth. In order to keep up local knowledge of traditional engineering skills, they have a programme […]
As part of their aim to raise £15,000 for Derian House, the local young people’s hospice, through completing the National Three Peaks Challenge, staff from What More UK took on a training climb of Ben Nevis – and did the climb and return in just 4 hours 30 minutes! This completes their training climbs, as […]
What More UK was established in 1999 by Burnley businessman Andy Holt. The business launched with 15 products, mainly plastic garden items, and turned over £4.5million in its first year. It has gone on to become a major employer in the borough of Hyndburn, employing 350 across two sites and exporting around the world. What […]
What More UK believe in the ‘Made in Britain’ ethos, buying local wherever possible and training their staff from the ground up. Engineering is a specialist industry requiring traditional skills, and the recent acquisition of Canteen Smithy will only strengthen What More’s toolmaking capabilities. In order to keep up with their expansion and growth, […]
The pupils of St Mary’s RC Primary School in Clayton-le-Moors are an inspirational group of children. Their story of building an entire classroom outdoors went around the world and they were featured on the BBC. They are determined to give plastic a second life by making ecobricks – plastic bottles stuffed tight with single use […]