Dixons Flogs Off Webhallen

Dixons Retail has agreed to sell Webhallen, a subsidiary of Pixmania, to Komplett, a Norwegian based e-commerce company approximately SKr140m (£14 million) in cash.

Hoover To Close Bury Depot

Jobs are under threat at Hoover’s Bolton facility after home appliances firm Hoover announced plans to relocate spare parts warehousing jobs to Italy.

Hotpoint Recall Dishwashers

Hotpoint, which is owned by Indesit, have issued a safety notice or recall on faulty Hotpoint dishwasher models that may prevent a fire risk sold in the UK in 2006 and 2007 as we previously pointed out in this report last month.

LG Robotic Vac Also A Guard Dog

We expect some whacky stuff to come from LG and rival Samsung and we’ve sort of gotten used ot it but they never fail to impress us with strange ideas and this one is a cracker, LG says that it’s robotic vacuum cleaner line could double up as a guard for your home against fire and theft.

LG Styler Offers Detergent Free Cleaning

We hear that LG has plans in its continued effort to achieve global domination before Samsung, to introduce a water free washing machine Says the LG Senior Vice President For LG’s Home Appliance Division but details have so far not been revealed. But we have seen the new Styler model for refreshi…

Holes In Clothes: The Main Causes

  Holes In Clothes Continuing on from our article on the mechanical reasons a washing machine can cause small holes or tears in clothes we will now explain the by far more common explanations on why this happens.  We will demonstrate that very often it is not your washing machine t…

Holes In Clothes: Mechanical Causes

Holes In Clothes We often see reports of washing machines tearing or magically making small holes or tears in people’s clothes but, is it really your washing machine that is to blame for this? The answer is, probably not. Although huge numbers of people will automatically blame their washing mach…

Xeros Gains £10 Million Investment

Xeros, the cleaning technology company using polymer beads in a washing machine, has raised £10 million from new and existing investors as it looks to accelerate the roll out of its commercial laundry cleaning system.

What Your Appliance Is Really Worth

  Appliance Values Insurance write off, exchange… we explain why appliances usually are not worth what owners think Working in the appliance service business we often get people demanding new machines or a full refund when the old one breaks and, very often when this happens, what man…