Monthly Archives: April 2011

With only a few days to go until the hotly anticipated wedding between Price William and Kate Middleton, why don’t you take advantage of Duvet and Pillow Warehouse’s special royal wedding offer today?

Even though every girl up and down the country is jealous of Miss Middleton and her possible future as the Queen of England, it doesn’t mean you can’t be a princess too and have regal bedroom with the help from us.

With our fantastic royal wedding offer, you can get brilliant discounts off everything online simply by entering “royal” at the checkout.

With free delivery, you can get a massive 20% off all items but hurry; as with the infamous Cinderella storyline the fairy tale cannot go on forever and the offer ends this Friday when the wedding takes place.

Reap the royal benefits now by updating your bedding for the summer period and purchasing a single Duvet bundle for only £11.99. For only a little bit more you can get a double duvet bundle for only £14.99 and you can buy a memory foam contour Pillow for under a tenner!

But if it is the bathroom that you want to put a sense of regal in, then pick up some 100% cotton towels at an astonishing low of £12.60.

So tune in with the other millions of people across the globe who will be watching the Royal Wedding on 29^th April and snuggle up with your very own imperial duvet inside your very own palace.

Our videos have gone live!

We have launched a brilliant series of satire videos as part of our new brand-building campaign and they have officially been launched.

The minute long films which are tongue-in-cheek feature behind-the-scenes operations at our headquarters in Sunderland.

Some of our staffs got involved in the videos including ‘Marketing Mark’, ‘Forklift Gina’ and ‘Morris the Cleaner as well as our very own CEO Charles Hunt.

You can really get to know the team and the warehouse and learn more about our wacky characters, simply through social platforms and channels.

Charles Hunt said: “Transforming from a day-to-day businessman to a star of the silver screen was a fair shock to the system! The process was great though. I hope our existing fans will enjoy them and spread the message to consumers who have yet to experience the value and quality proposition of DAPW.”

Like a fly-on-the-wall reality show, you can watch the monthly battles between Charles Hunt, the no-nonsense DAPW boss who’s proud of his offer and of his warehouse, and his young marketing manager Mark, desperate to market Duvet And Pillow Warehouse like the competition.

Mr. Hunt added: “Sleep is our most basic human function and everyone should have the tools for the perfect slumber. Duvet and Pillow Warehouse offers the best products at attainable prices for everyone.”

So check out the videos today at our Facebook page www.facebook.com/DAPW or visit the website at www.dapw.co.uk.

According to reports in a Chinese newspaper, Shanghai has changed its’ rental laws to stop people living and sleeping in rooms other than the bedroom.

The new policies soon to be put place in the city enforce that residents have at least five square metres to live in to stop the practise of overcrowded apartments.

The amendments emphasise the importance of space, limiting citizen’s ability to rent out rooms such as kitchens and closets. These practises are increasingly more common in Shanghai as rents rise; but the new regulations coming into force are to try and make people think twice about renting that extra space as a low-cost bedroom.

The new policy is prohibiting landlords from converting rooms like the bathroom into sleeping rooms.

It is reported more than 31 million square meters of floor space was rented in Shanghai during 2010, but of that number, 8% of the space was occupied by local residents, 88% by Chinese from elsewhere in China and a mere 4% by overseas residents.

Wherever one is sleeping, make sure you are all wrapped up in a cosy Goose down duvet, with Goose down quilts and a quality Pillow.

Here at Duvet and Pillow Warehouse HQ we have been super excited all week looking forward to this weekend, as tomorrow is International Pillow Fight Day!

Massive pillow fights in cities around the world will be taking place and you can get involved and have fun too in the UK, at Trafalgar Square in London.

Get those pillows at the ready and swing and whack into as many people as you can, making as many feathers fly into the air as possible.

Take the family down and have a fun day out learning more about the urban playground movement; soar your pillows and teddies into the air and witness a giant urban pillow fight; you will never see anything like it ever.

But whatever you do play by the rules; wait for the signal, take soft pillows and keep violence or bad behaviour to a minimal.

If you wear glasses make sure you take them off beforehand and whatever you do. Don’t whack your pillow at a person with a camera; you don’t want to break anything accidently.

Kick off the public square in style with loud air horns, chimes and bells and cloud the air with hundreds of fluffy feathers.

However, the ideal pillow fight leaves no traces that it ever occurred so make sure you help to clean up afterwards!