Happy New Year from the staff at UK Whitegoods, let’s hope that 2009 is a good year for us all. As ever at this time of the year I would like to thank all the people that help us make this site possible, the moderators especially, by helping people for free in the forums. As usual, through 2008, …
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Panic Grips The High Street, But What About Everything Else?
Unless you happen to have been living in a cave for the past few months you will be well aware of the current trading conditions, it’s grim, very grim. Analysts and pundits are, basically, predicting the end of the world as we know it with major retailers going bust all over the place and some su…
MFI, The Future
Stories are emerging of a rumoured relaunch of the MFI furniture chain using the Hygena and Schrieber brand names, both of which were owned by MFI. However this may not be as simple as it sounds since other retailers in the sector rush in to fill the void left by the demise of MFI.
Electrolux Confirms Spenymoor Is To Close
The last remaining Electrolux workers at Spenymoor have learned their jobs are to go. Electrolux has announced it is closing its finished-goods warehouse and distribution centre in Spennymoor next summer with the loss of 23 jobs.
Gorenje To Cut Labour Hours & Salaries On Lower Demand
Slovenia’s top household appliances maker Gorenje plans to cut labour hours in production to 36 hours a week per employee from 40 starting January 1, due to lower demand caused by the global financial crisis, according to a Reuters report.
Hopes Fade For Hoover
Wale Online has reported that any hope of saving Hoover production workers’ jobs are fading fast. Meetings with management have so far failed to give any glimmer of hope, says John Jones, Unite union convenor at the Merthyr Tydfil plant. Working five days but getting paid for four is one idea the…
Kesa Profits Plunge, Comet Loses Money
Electrical goods retailer Kesa Electricals Plc which trades as Comet in the UK have posted a 71 percent fall in first-half retail profit, halved its dividend and said trading was set to remain tough, sending its shares 11 percent lower. Chief Executive Jean-Noel Labroue forecast “a very difficult…
Kuppersbusch Wins Retraction
Stories questioning the future of Kuppersbusch have circulated since incorrect claims appeared in sections of the German press. The reports in question stated that Kuppersbusch was going out of business, but it is understood that the publications involved have agreed to publish retractions and ap…
KBB Businesses Go Into Meltdown
As we have been saying on UK Whitegoods for some weeks, if not months, it would appear that with the slowdown (or dead stop) in the housing market that many kitchen, bedroom and bathroom (KBB) businesses that companies that major in that arena are dropping like the proverbial flies. News keeps re…
Rangemaster To Shed 80 Jobs
Employees at Rangemaster in Leamington face an uncertain Christmas after it was announced 80 jobs will go. The management of the firm have outlined 80 redundancies at the Clarence Street factory which come after the group announced a 15 per cent reduction in orders in October.