Two companies in America have teamed up to find a way to make sure you give their advertisements your undivided attention – by placing them in the mirrors in public bathrooms. Clear Channel Outdoors and Mirrus have come up with some new motion sensor technology which means mirrors can be used to show either still [...]
Digital signage is enhancing many industry sectors and business but now it seems it is being used to benefit editorial advertising…in bathrooms. Ads in toilets are nothing new; most advertising appears above the toilet or on the back of the door when you walk into the cubicle. However, a fresh new marketing tool is being [...]
It’s the season of goodwill and businesses in Hertfordshire are extending theirs to Christmas shoppers by opening their doors and offering their toilet facilities to all. The council-led scheme could see local companies earn up to £1,000 for their gesture as opposed to the constant, expensive maintenance of public loos. The scheme was trialled in [...]
Competition is always rife at this time of year as we reminisce about the last 12 months and dish out awards in various industries… and the toilet sector is no different with Britain’s Loo of the Year Awards having taken place this week. The awards herald the greatest toilets in the public domain which includes [...]
An old red telephone box has been transformed into an outside toilet by a 73-year-old man from Somerset. Retired salesman, John Long, had spent many months converting the former box into an outside toilet creating a stir in the local community. To make sure that everything would fit before he went ahead with his project, [...]
Lake District Council are looking to sell their public toilets to private firms in a bid to save cash. South Lakeland Council is considering introducing charges for the 39 toilets that are currently in operation. The annual cost of the toilets is £790,000 which the council cannot afford to keep. They are currently in areas [...]
Here at TradePlumbing HQ, we’re quite partial to the odd survey here and there but this one left us feeling a bit icky. According to research by those eager beavers at Which? magazine, the average mobile phone these days carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a gent’s loo. Not [...]
TravelCentres across America have renovated their driver showers at all its TA and Shopping Centre locations with new facilities. The new showers have brand new showerheads with an improved water spra, new cloth floor mats, new liquid soap and shower dispensers, decor baskets, large signature orange towels and other amenities. “Our managers regularly shower at [...]
When Apple say ‘There’s an App for that…’, they aren’t kidding. Move over games, videos, sat navs and social networking – community-based apps such as ‘ToiletFinderUK’ is where it’s at when it comes to demand! The app has seen more that 430,000 downloads on the App Store, as people clamour for a way to find [...]
It’s been pretty much doom and gloom for UK pubs in the last few years with an average of five pubs closing each day across Britain and Ireland, yet there’s a small windfall winging its way to some alehouses in Gloucester in a scheme that could eventually roll out across the country. Three Gloucester pubs [...]
