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Dear Reader,
Just how long can the good times roll for Indesit? The stock market share value is on a downturn and forecasters are reacting nervously to the retail marketing slump, yet production continues at a pace with new products destined for a High Street near everyone. Staff in all departments are keeping their heads down lest their position is ‘rationalised’ for greater company efficiency . High ranking management busy flying backwards and forwards across Europe putting in place the finer points of factory relocation.
Company ‘insiders’ are rubbing shoulders with MEP’s in Brussels and Strasbourg, likely taking delegates ‘out to lunch’ in an attempt to retain their high profile business standing. Nervously awaiting the outcome, yet to be rationalised, on subjects such as the WEEE Directive, the decline in governments accepting the EU Constitution and the rumblings Germany is currently having over the future of the Euro.
All this is of great and even grave concern to a company that in recent years has set its own standards of productive quality so drastically low in order to compete within this the most aggressive of all consumer based markets. Adopting an ethic of quantity not quality in the whitegoods market will only lead further down the manufacturing ‘black hole’ where there is no way out whatsoever.
We surely would all agree that todays technology is the primary asset to manufacturers above anything else. Unless the very latest techniques of design and production are put in place to produce a quality product at a competitive price, then the business will struggle to survive and likely fold at a terrible cost for all involved.
Sadly to even the most casual observer, Indesit have adopted the wrong business acumen by cutting their cloak too fine in all departments. The end result is a shoddy unreliable product, failed delivery dates, poor (at best) after sales and worst still, a reputation in the trade to match!
Re: To whom it may concern @ the Indesit Company
Has any press or tv program picked up on the goods turned out by them. If not it won’t be long before someone gets hold of this. There must be loads of disgruntled customers with these machines out there all festering away. Ebay is usually full of nearly new Indesit models that are broke. In fact if you scan through the various brands of machines for sale they are generally all in working order apart from Indesit evolutions and so on. Usually bearings or module or something else.How long can it be before this way of doing business ruins the Indesit name which they now proudly display with Hotpoint. Wake up! but Its probably already too late! How difficult is it to make a reliable washing machine when you’ve been building them since time began or don’t you give a toss!
Re: To whom it may concern @ the Indesit Company
Yes to all that. Anyone who can remember Inedsit’s L5 and L6 washers, and the L12 dishwasher will know that they haven’t always made rubbish. Cheap maybe- I can remember Tesco selling the L6 for under £50! It gets a bit wearing to be given parts prices that rival the machine price, especially for the cheap Merloni derivatives.
Who’s for a Beko, then?Re: To whom it may concern @ the Indesit Company
The public get what they deserve. The dumb ones, who won’t pay a proper price, deserve what they get. The only ones I feel sorry for are those that can’t afford a decent one but would buy one if they could. Most people are so greedy and self indulgent it never crosses their mind that a £200 washing might be rubbish – even though their last on cost £350 nearly 10 years ago!
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