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Finder Retail Awards 2023: Best homeware brands in Australia
The Finder Retail Awards recognises Australia's favourite brands across more than 100 retail categories. We survey thousands of real Australians to understand how they feel about their recent product purchases, and use that information to reward the most popular brands.
These are the best brands for homeware care in the 2023 Awards.
Best-rated electric blanket brand: Dreamaker
Dreamaker has been crowned the best electric blanket brand at this year's Finder Customer Satisfaction Awards. It received excellent ratings for performance, ease of use, cleaning and maintenance, product features and value for money. 94% of surveyed customers recommended Dreamaker electric blankets.
The Amazon-owned Ring has taken out this year's award for best home security system brand. Ring received excellent scores in every metric including product features and value for money. The brand was recommended by 94% of those surveyed.
Victorinox is most famous for the Swiss Army Knife but it also manufactures a range of award-winning kitchen knives. It can now add a Finder Customer Satisfaction Award to its list of accolades courtesy of unbeaten scores for performance, maintenance and ease of use. 92% of respondents said they would recommend Victorinox to others.
Masport is Australia's best-rated lawn mower brand courtesy of high ratings for performance, ease of use, cleaning and maintenance, product features and value for money. 96% of surveyed customers recommended Masport lawnmowers.
With excellent scores for comfort, support and durability, Sealy has risen to the top to take out this year's mattress brand award. An incredible 98% of surveyed customers said they would recommend Sealy mattresses to others.
Dulux was the top performing paint brand at this year's Finder Customer Satisfaction Awards thanks to solid ratings across all scoring metrics including quality of finish, durability, ease of use and value for money. It received an overall recommendation score of 93%.
Highly commended
Haymes Paint
Berger
Best-rated pressure washer brand: Gerni
If you need to quickly clean large areas with water, a Gerni pressure washer is the product you're looking for. Gerni beat out 13 other brands to be crowned this year's best pressure washer brand with top scores for performance and ease of use. Gerni was recommended by 92% of the customers we surveyed.
For the crispest, cleanest lawn imaginable, look no further than Stihl. The German manufacturer topped the results to win the Finder Award for best whipper snipper brand. Surveyed customers gave Stihl consistently high ratings for performance and value for money, with 98% saying they would recommend the brand.
The Finder Retail Awards recognises brand sentiment from customer feedback on different retail product categories. Finder worked with data and insights company Dynata to conduct thousands of customer interviews around their product purchasing history and satisfaction with their purchased products.
Disclaimer: Please refer to our methodology for more information on how we scored and judged Finder Retail Awards candidates. While we endeavour to assess the majority of product providers in the market, this is not always possible and it may be that not every brand in the market was included for judging.
Chris Jager is the editorial lead for shopping at Finder. With over 16 years of experience as a full-time journalist, Chris has provided expertise to many leading technology publications, including PC World, Australian Gamepro, Good Gear Guide, ARN, IT News, PC Authority, CRN, GameSpy, Gizmodo, Business Insider, MSN, Kotaku, Lifehacker Australia, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Before joining Finder, Chris was the editor of Lifehacker Australia for 5 years. He has a Bachelor of Communications in Journalism from the University of Western Sydney. Outside of Finder, you'll find him playing with retro '80s computers while juggling 3 TikTok-obsessed daughters.
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