Chefman won shelf space with affordable appliances. Then it used the cash to build CHEF iQ - a connected kitchen system whose most important ingredient may be the factory that refused to make it.
Kenwood did not win the postwar kitchen by selling a faster whisk. It sold one dependable motor, then kept inventing new jobs for it - a playbook that now stretches from a £49.99 processor to a £1,249 connected cooker.