Azor 5

Honestly. Seriously! Our King of Shaves | Remington Azor 5 & AlphaGels are getting fabulous reviews in the USA via Amazon.com. 127 ave 4.2/5 Azor 5 ratings, 34 AlphaGel ave 4.8/5 – Wow!

Remington, our US distribution partner launched our latest King of Shaves Azor 5 System Razor & two uniquely designed AlphaGels on Amazon.com just last week, and already, they’re getting fabulous reviews (and more reviews than Gillette Mach3 & Gillette Fusion ProGlide).

The 127 Azor reviews, averaging 4.2/5 are here. The 34 AlphaGel reviews, averaging 4.8/5 are here.

And the best bit for hard hit US consumers is that a pack of 6 Azor 5 EnduriumNano replacement cartridges is just $11.99 (or less) versus expensive Gillette Fusion ProGlide replacement cartridges, at $22+

Shave AND Save with King of Shaves | Remington.

Honestly. Seriously. King of Shaves IS the King of Shaves in the USA, and with our roll-out into stores across the USA coming in the Fall, we’re looking forward to shaving America better, forever with King of Shaves in partnership with Remington.

The King of Shaves USA Facebook fanpage is here if you wish to ‘Like’ us in America!

King of Shaves At The Forefront of Smarketing & Product Innovation with King’s Speech, iPhone App & Azor 5 & SuperGels! What a Week – God Shave The King!

It’s been an awesome week for King of Shaves this week.

On Sunday, we uploaded our parody of The King’s Speech onto YouTube, which has gone down a storm world-wide, becoming the 4th most ret-weeted/shared link on Sunday night in the USA, according to zocial.tv, and which now has over 6,000+ views and has been written up by a number of influential blog sites as ‘The’ way to do social media ‘smarketing‘ as I call it.

2375-iPhone_with_KOS_App_v1-thumb-292x571-2374.jpgOn Monday, less than 24 hours later – and in advance of Steve Jobs’ debuting Apples new iPad2, I launched our new King of Shaves iPhone app to the 150+ audience at smartaLIVE – a group of upcoming entrepreneurs, knowledge catalysts and forward thinkers. It’s a very KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) free app, that allows you to 1) Get a free King of Shaves Azor 4 XP razor, 2) Order our Azor Endurium cartridges at a significant discount to the UK RRP, and get them delivered to your door (over £30 can be saved when compared to ordering the equivalent number of Gillette ProGlide cartridges) and 3) It connects you into our Kingdom of Social Media, via links to our Facebook fanpage, our YouTube twitter account and my Twitter feed. It’s already picking up very nice reviews indeed!

2377-photosoft-thumb-248x186-2376.jpgToday, our new Azor 5 debuted in-store in Tesco (2 weeks early – they are very quick off the mark) along with our latest in shaving software, the SuperGel – more details on this coming soon. All in all, a most excellent week – despite Gillette spending squillions on ‘tugging and pulling’ people towards the hyper-expensive Fusion ProGlide, our sales are standing up well, and have grown over the past few weeks.

I’m off for a few days R&R next week, back on the UK Shave Grid w/c 14 March, but will be ‘tweetdecking’ off a ‘yacht deck’ next week, as I continue to plan out the continuing globalisation of King of Shaves.

Big respect to our partners in the USA too, Spectrum Brands (Remington) – they’ve had some most excellent news this week with regard to our King of Shaves launch there…

Leading UK Consumer Magazine Which? Video Review of King of Shaves Azor 5 – Yay!

King of Shaves Launch Azor 5! First system razor designed for Sensitive skin. Endurium Nano thin blade cartridges just £6.99 for 6! At Asda in UK NOW.

2338-Azor 5 -thumb-300x225-2337.jpgA day earlier than expected, David Keat, a loyal King of Shaves fan spotted our new Azor 5 in-store at Asda, and watched a lady buy one whilst he was there! The King of Shaves Azor 5 is the latest, 5 blade addition to our market changing Azor range, launched in the UK in June 2008. So, why is it different, better than before?

Let me name the ways!

The Azor 5 handle design & hinge has been re-engineered to make it much softer on men’s (often sensitive skin). This has been achieved through changing the ‘shore’ of our patented Bendology Technology and other clever techy stuff. Our Azor is unique in that we are able to do this, all other system razors have one ‘default’ setting so to speak. I’m very proud of this. We’ve also made it out of a funky metallic blue polyastomer, with our latest weighted metal handle with creases for improved shave dexterity & ease of use. Finally, the handle now has an elegant travel tray, that we love the aesthetic of. For storage, it is placed ‘face down’, or if you want to show it off on your bathroom shelf, ‘face up’!

BUT there’s MUCH more…!

No gorgeous fast car is complete without a fantastic engine, and with our latest cartridge, we’ve taken shaving to a whole new level of comfort and closeness. Our Azor 5 cartridge features:

5 thinner, finer blades – which basically mean you get a closer, more comfortable and forgiving shave.

Each blade is coated in what we call EnduriumNano – it’s a thinner coating than our previous Endurium one (as used on on our 4 blade Azor cartridges) and helps to make our super sharp, hard steel blades last longer.

Finally, and this is the Best Bit, is the price. Unlike our pricey Fusion ProGlide competitor, which charges between between £15-20 for 6 replacement cartridges (people – this is where the REAL expense is), we’re launching our Azor 5 cartridges for a limited time at just £6.99 for 6 cartridges in all retailers. Asda are our launch retailer, with Azor 5 then rolling into Waitrose, Sainsbury, Tesco & Boots over the next couple of months.

So, now you can truly SHAVE LIKE A KING without paying a King’s Ransom. You can buy the latest in sleek, innovative British design. You can save money into the bargain. If you have sensitive skin (53% of men apparently have) then your face, as well as your finances will love you for it.

Introducing King of Shaves Azor 5. The Future of Shaving. Join our Kingdom!

(ps – sorry for the pic being on its side. I can’t seem to rotate it through 90 degrees)
(pps – where i am its 2am in the morning, bit (!) jet lagged hence working.

King of Shaves Aims To Beat Gillette On Price And Performance with new Azor 5

2330-Sunday Telegraph-thumb-150x112-2329.jpgJust a brief blog on the fantastic article published in today’s Sunday Telegraph on our aspirations world-wide, and for our latest Azor, the Azor 5. You can link to the article here, and read it for yourself; for sure, my team and I are excited about getting more and more people here, in the USA, and world-wide using King of Shaves, without paying the increasingly huge cartridge ransoms being introduced by our competitors.

You don’t have to pay a huge amount per cartridge to get a close comfortable shave – our launch of our Azor proved that two & a half years ago, and I’m delighted with the price of our latest Azor 5 cartridge (thin blade, EnduriumNano – read long lasting – coated). It’s just £6.99 for 6, compared with Gillette Fusion ProGlide at £16.99 for 6, and a WHOPPING £19.99 for 6 if you’re (mad) enough to buy their Fusion ProGlide Power variant.

The Azor 5 launches at Asda on 25th January 2011, before hitting other UK retailers over the next few months, and our latest software, King of Shaves SuperGels will also go on sale soon.

Then, its a big push in the USA throughout 2011 as we already to look towards 2012 and what we’re planning then.

Best wishes,

Will