Birkdale Kitchen Co. in Southport has added to its haul of awards after winning the title of the ‘New Kitchen Retailer of the Year’ at the prestigious national BKU Awards.
The firm, which has a showroom on Weld Road in the heart of Birkdale Village, has already won several major awards since being opened by Neil Gokcen and Stephen Dunne on 12th April 2021.
It is now in the process of growing its offering to meet customer demands as orders grow.
Neil Gokcen said: “We are thrilled to announce that we’ve been named the ‘New Kitchen Retailer of the Year’ at the BKU Awards!
“This is an amazing achievement for us and we’re feeling incredibly honoured to receive this recognition.
“We would like to thank our customers and the wider community for your continued support.
“The awards are decided through voting by experts from within the industry.
“It’s a very big accolade for us to win!
“There is a lot of competition to win this one from kitchen retailers from across the UK.
“For us to bring this award home to Southport is pretty special.
“We would like to thank everyone within our industry who has voted for us and for our customers who continue to support us in everything we do.
“It is a really big achievement. To have our peers voting us as the best is a nice feather in our cap.
“It was a real buzz to find out we had won. It’s something we are really proud of.”
Winning ‘New Kitchen Retailer of the Year’ is yet another accolade for Neil and Stephen to celebrate.
Last year Birkdale Kitchen Co. won UK ‘Kitchen Showroom of the Year at the 2022 kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2022 in Birmingham.
In October last year they went global as they were shortlisted in the Global Kitchen Design Awards for Best Kitchen Design at an awards ceremony in Stuttgart in Germany.
Coronation Street star Faye Brookes praised Birkdale Kitchen Co. after they worked with the actress to transform her home and create her “dream kitchen”.
Neil said: “We might have to build an extension to our trophy cabinet!
“We never rest on our laurels and are always looking to add to what we can offer our customers.
“We have changed one of our key suppliers, and will be making an announcement about that in the near future.
“We are looking to broaden our offering to provide home offices and bedroom furniture.
“There are other things that we are thinking about doing but these are the next things that we are going to market with.”
Birkdale Kitchen Co. combines top quality kitchen design with the very latest technology to create award winning kitchens which have everything for modern living.
- Birkdale Kitchen Co. is situated at 38 Weld Road, Birkdale, Southport, PR8 2ED. Visit the Birkdale Kitchen Co website here or call them on: 01704 651488.
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