Leading bathroom manufacturer SONAS Bathrooms has been named Best Sanitaryware Brand at the BKU Awards 2026. The awards, held at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London, recognise excellence across the bathroom and kitchen industry.
A key distinguishing factor of these awards is their independence: winners are largely decided by industry professionals, making them a true mark of peer and customer recognition. This year, the BKU Awards saw 4,000 industry professionals voting across its categories. The Best Sanitaryware Brand category was particularly competitive, with some of the UK’s leading bathroom brands shortlisted.
As SONAS Bathrooms continues its expansion into the UK market, with a new distribution centre set to open in Redditch later this year, the award highlights the brand’s growing reputation among both its long-established Irish customer base and its ever-growing UK audience. Having traded in the UK market for only three years, this national accolade is particularly special, representing the high standard of service it has delivered to its UK-customer base.
Furthermore, the award cements how SONAS Bathrooms’ sanitaryware range has become a trusted choice for retailers, merchants, and installers, offering consistent quality, compliance, and reliability. At the heart of its product design process is ‘Assured by Design’ — a design philosophy at the cross-section of quality and style, supported by EPD certification and Unified Water Label registration. It offers its customers the complete bathroom solution, including popular premium LIVING Collection, which offers five carefully considered colour palettes designed to inspire designers and help retailers create more distinctive bathroom schemes. The HORIZON range, meanwhile, has become a staple for developers and installers working on residential new build projects across Ireland and the UK, combining design consistency, availability, and practical specification confidence.
SONAS Bathrooms continues to place the customer at the centre of its approach across the business, from product development and design through to testing and compliance. To be recognised by industry peers and customers is a testament to its customer-first approach as well as the quality of its products.
Richard Sloan, CEO of SONAS Bathrooms, said: “This award is a great achievement for us here at SONAS Bathrooms. Nominated for and ultimately voted for by our customers and peers, we are delighted to receive such a prestigious award. It is a true testament to the hard work of both our Irish and UK-based teams.”
Dean Stokes, UK Sales Director at SONAS, added: “As we look to the opening of our UK-based distribution centre this summer, a milestone which will allow us to grow our UK customer base, we are delighted to have received this stamp of approval from our customers and peers. We are approaching a pivotal moment in our expansion into the UK market, and this award is the proof that what we provide is working for our customers.”
Set to debut at InstallerSHOW 2026 this month, SONAS Bathrooms is excited to build connections with UK installers and merchants that they meet and offer real-world insight about its products.
Learn more about SONAS here: https://www.sonasbathrooms.com/gbp
Pictured: Andrew McLean, Technical Director, Bathroom Association; Paul Harris, SONAS Regional Sales Manager; and television presenter Mark Durden-Smith