Category: Candy

Hoover Candy has moved to a new office in Warrington.

For those that now us here, we’re a cynical bunch and often get accused of being pessimistic so, when we said that Candy and Gorenje would probably be bought many said we were talking nonsense, it’d never happen. Guess what?

We picked up on an article on the BBC News website about Hoover’s pension scheme being moved to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) but, it may be more interesting than that.

Candy has announced the launch of its brand new Grando Vita range of washing machines and washer dryers.

The Sun has today reported, in its usual dramatic style, that a six year old boy was almost injured by one of the now famous exploding Candy Hoover washing machines that we reported on some time ago.

You may have seen the recent news items and photographs of the failing Candy and Hoover washing machines which are, to be blunt, quite spectacular in the way that they are failing. Obviously Trading Standards are investigating this sort of failure but, in the meantime, please feast your eyes on t…

  The Sunday Mirror reports yesterday that another instance of a Candy washing machine “exploding” has come to light after. We reported the story in November 2010 and since then we have heard of several other reports of similar failures happening on other Candy and Hoover washing machines.

After the story from the end of last week we have now also heard of Candy “Go” washing machines also “exploding”. Unfortunately for Candy Hoover, this happened in a German test lab and then reports of such incidents started to come in from the field. This failure was highlighted by a German telev…

Candy has warned that certain combined dishwasher, oven and hob appliances in its Trio range may pose a fire risk. In an official safety warning the company says: ‘Although the risk is very small, we have become aware and are concerned that an extremely low probability exists of overheating of a …

Candy-Hoover, the owners of the former Hoover manufacturing site in Merthyr, which ceased production last year, are in discussions with a number of property development companies over a land sale. Italian-owned Candy Hoover, closed its non-profit-making manufacturing facility at the 40-acre site …