In response to the growing number of people conducting online research before making an appliance purchase, Whirlpool has re-launched its flagship Web site at http://www.whirlpool.com . This new site offers improved functionality features and a beautiful, clean, contemporary design that reflects …
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Hoover Calling, No Its AVON!
More than ten years on who would have guessed a Hoover type offer appears. It would seem marketeers have learn’t little & more to the point the ASA has neither the power or the ground rules in place to stop this nonsence? I have little doubt that the Infamous Hoover Free Flight Fiasco, has ye…
Producer responsibility issues still to be resolved on WEEE
A number of uncertainties regarding the collection and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment have not yet been resolved, the government admitted last week. The Department of Trade and Industry published draft regulations and guidance for the European Waste Electrical and Electron…
GE to lay off 525 workers from Bloomington plant
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — General Electric Co. said Friday it plans to lay off 525 employees at its Bloomington refrigerator plant by the end of March 2005. The cuts will reduce the plant’s work force of more than 1,600 employees by nearly one-third.
Manufacturer Service & Installation
We have today been asked to compile a list of service and installation agents for a leading top flight manufacturer on a national basis.
Electrolux unveils new refrigerator
Electrolux India, a subsidiary of the Electrolux group, has launched the world’s first hands-free refrigerator ‘Oxyaquaswing’. The new product has a foot pedal opening door with a water dispenser that allows one to store large quantities of water in the refrigerator
Maytag sues Electrolux over washing machine basket patent
DES MOINES, Iowa Maytag Corporation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against competitor Electrolux Home Products over the design of plastic washing machine baskets.
WEEE’re in it together, says UK’s top two
COMET and Dixons Group are understood to be joining forces to help find a solution to the problem of recycling unwanted electrical appliances ahead of the forthcoming Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive.
P&G Goes Digital
Proctor & Gamble, one of the largest household products manufacturers in the world, is going to help shape digital home efforts when it takes a seat on the Internet Home Alliance’s (IHA) board of directors Wednesday.
Whirlpool to bring refrigerator line back to Evansville
The Whirlpool Corporation says it’s bringing back a refrigerator line to its southern Indiana plant. The company says more than 100-thousand 22-inch “Bottom Mount” refrigerators — those with the freezer on the bottom — will be made at the Evansville plant starting in 2006.