Kaboodle is bursting with pride because we have welcomed Adam Morris (pictured above, left, with Commercial Director Glenn Beardon) to the team as our new National Business Development Manager!
Look at all these smiling Kaboodle (and Electrolux) faces! That’s what happens when you put us in a room with some of the best, new kitchen appliances on the market and let us open some doors. Recently, some of our Kaboodle team went to a visit our good friends at the Luton Electrolux offices, to look at their new, expanded range.
Where better for two self-proclaimed ‘kitchen geeks’ to catch up with some like-minded people and learn about some exciting industry innovation than at the EuroCucina 2024 event. Kaboodle MD Matthew Pitt and Commercial Director Glenn Beardon spent an awesome two days at the end of April learning about the latest kitchen innovations.
Considerate and respectful – two words that are music to our Kaboodle ears when spoken by our customers. So, when we get feedback from a customer telling us two of our engineers were exactly that, we find it hard to stop smiling.
It’s been six months since we launched our industry-first White Goods Installer Apprenticeship Programme here at Kaboodle. So, we thought we’d take a minute to talk to Kaboodle MD Matthew Pitt about how it all started and how it is going so far. Read the full interview here.
This year, for the third time, five of the Kaboodle Leadership Team will taking part in The Housebuilders Challenge, which will see them hiking for 10 hours up the Black Mountains to raise money for the Youth Adventure Trust.
Kaboodle are delighted to have launched into a new partnership with leading sustainability innovator in the home appliance industry, Glen Dimplex Home Appliances (GDHA). Going forward, Kaboodle, which has teams operating in Stevenage, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds and Telford, will be installing home appliances across every GDHA brand, nationally.
We’d like to say a big well done to Kaboodle Installers Ruben Pestana and Kamil Olejnik for successfully completing their gas safety qualification. We are extremely proud of Ruben and Kamil, who both joined Kaboodle in October 2022 and passed the 19-week course - seven weeks in the classroom and 12 weeks on-the-job training - with flying colours.
One of our proudest environmental moments has got to be the planting of 300 Mangrove Trees on Kaboodle's behalf in Tudor Creek, Kenya, in partnership with Mr Bamboo Cup and the awesome Eden Reforestation Projects. The trees were sown following the purchase of 300 reusable cups from eco-friendly drinkware company Mr Bamboo Cup, who, in return, pledged to plant a tree for EVERY cup bought.
Kaboodle’s Bristol Team are excited to get started on our first ever site for Redrow South Wales next month. Our team of experienced Bristol-based Kaboodle installers, who cover the West and Southwest of England and South Wales, will be installing a range of Electrolux Group appliances in 45 modern homes at Redrow’s Great Milton Park development in Newport, Wales.
Bradley Postance joined our Stevenage team as a Business Admin Apprentice in our Client Services Department, after seeing an opportunity to develop previous skills, while also opening up a new career path.
Sebastien (Seb) Brooke joined the Kaboodle apprenticeship scheme in September 2023 as one of our Apprentice Installers. Seb, who is doing the Gas Engineering Level 3 Apprenticeship, tells us a bit more why he wanted to do the apprenticeship, what skills he is learning and what is most interesting about the apprenticeship.