Expanding your business into the sauna market.


The last few seasons have hit the pool industry particularly hard. Not only is the country suffering from economic recession but we’ve also had a run of bad summers and, almost unbelievably, a hosepipe ban on top of that. The trade are coping with these difficult conditions as well as they can but things could […]

How’s 2012 been for you; we really want to know.


It is feeling as if 2012 has been ‘winterised’ now. Its covers are on and it’s been put away for another year. But how have the last twelve months been? We’d like you to tell us all about it in our annual survey of the whole wet leisure industry; more on ‘how’ and ‘why’ later. […]

Running rings around the competition. What London 2012 can teach us about marketing.


It is probably safe to say that everyone considers the Olympic Games in London to have been a success. Just how big a success is down to a matter of personal opinion, but the event and the coverage that surrounded it won the hearts and minds of a nation.