Category: Electrolux

For those to lazy to vacuum, but who spend a lot of time around the house, Electrolux has come up with what might be the best invention since wall-to-wall carpeting. That’s right, the Swedish home appliance maker has invented the world’s first pair of vacuum shoes.

Michael Treschow, chairman of the board of directors of Electrolux, informed the nomination committee that he will not stand for re-election at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in April 2007.

Swedish-based appliance maker Electrolux is planning to invest still more in its manufacturing operations in Hungary in 2007. Hungarian business journal BBJ reports that Electrolux plans to spend 8 billion forints (approx. U.S. $4 million), about the same amount invested in the operation in 2006.

The Advertising Standards Authority has dealt with a complaint lodged by Dyson about Electrolux advertising their ‘Filter Cleaning’ vacuum cleaner.

Electrolux will start producing a new line of Zanussi ranges in 2007 at a plant on the Merrington Lane Industrial Estate in Spennymoor, County Durham, United Kingdom, according to a report in the UK’s The Northern Echo. The manufacturing start-up comes after an investment of £7 million. The…

Electrolux, a leading producer of major appliances for both consumer and professional use, and Servigistics, the leading strategic service management solution provider, announced today that Electrolux will implement the Servigistics solution across its U.S. major appliance service business. With …

Electrolux AB said second-quarter profit after financials, excluding items affecting comparisons to the previous year, amounted to 765 mln skr, up from 610 mln last time, helped by a slight increase in margins and sales. Market expectations were for second-quarter profit after financials, includi…

Japan’s Sharp said it would co-develop small and medium-sized refrigerators with Sweden’s Electrolux, the world’s largest maker of household appliances, as part of their business alliance. Sharp, which already supplies microwave ovens on an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) basis, said the n…

Few twenty-something British men aspire to be some kind of domestic god, so they are not easy consumers to reach if you are a maker of kitchen appliances. But they are an important target market, as there are 4 million single male households in this country.

Electrolux AB broke ground last week on the plant for its front-loading washers and dryers in South Ju??rez. Production is scheduled to begin in 2008.