It’s not often that we ask for help at UKW, usually we’re giving it away for free. Some say that we’re daft for doing so but what the heh. Well it so happens that anyone that wishes can help one of our employees that delivers the detergent training as he’s trying to help raise some cash to provid…
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Samsung Dominates Chinese Two Door Refrigeration
Samsung Electronics is seeing strong sales of two-door refrigerators in China and will boost marketing efforts in the burgeoning market. The Korean electronics giant controls the largest share of the Chinese market for two-door refrigerators with 29 percent, according to market research firm GFK….
AGA Foodservice buys Amana Microwaves
AGA Foodservice Group PLC, the cooker and refrigeration operation, said it has has acquired Amana Commercial Microwaves from the Whirlpool Corp for 49.25 mln usd in cash. AGA said the net assets being acquired are 5 mln usd.
Godrej & Boyce Set Up New Refrigeration Plant
Godrej & Boyce to spend Rs 100 cr for new unit Press Trust of India / New Delhi September 05, 2006 Godrej & Boyce plans to invest Rs 100 crore for setting up a refrigerator manufacturing facility near Pune. The company also expects a turnover of more than Rs 1,000 crore in the current fis…
Arcelik Markets World’s Fastest Dishwasher
Turkish appliance maker Arcelik who operate under the Beko brand name here in the UK says it has developed the “the world’s fastest dishwasher.”
Rouge Trader Is Under Fire
The notorious rogue Oldham trader Vance Miller is under fire ““ his remote farmhouse in Ripponden has been burned down and this week his main home in Ramsbottom was petrol-bombed. Miller’s £800,000 Great Manshead farmhouse in Ripponden, near Halifax, was targeted on 12 August. The Old…
BS Private Equity picks up Tecnowind
Industrial conglomerate Finsei has sold its 90 per cent majority stake in Tecnowind, an independent manufacturer of cooking hoods and electric hobs, to BS Private Equity. The stake in Tecnowind was purchased by the BS Investimenti IV fund.
M&S Electrical Goods Spark A Retail Battle
The Sunday Times has reported oveer the weekend that Marks & Spencer is to take on Currys and Argos by opening and retailing electrical goods in almost 100 of it’s stores acros the UK. The chief executive of M&S, Stuart Rose, has decided to trial the scheme for 10 months.
UK Whitegoods Training
Ukwhitegoods presentations sessions will resume on the 13th and 14th of September with a re-visit to the London area. The venues will be within the M25 in four strategic locations so that every whitegoods business in the area has the opportunity to attend with very little travelling. The sessions…
Sony flamed for battery bungle
It has been the biggest electronics industry recall in history, affecting almost six million laptop owners around the world and two of the biggest names in computing, Apple and Dell. Yet the news last week that Apple is recalling 1.8 million lithium-ion laptop batteries – coming just 10 days afte…