Category: Electrolux

Five Electrolux products have been recognized for their excellence in product design at the 50th edition of the red dot design award competition. More than 4,000 entries from 40 countries compete for the red dot, an international seal of quality for outstanding design.

THE future of Orange’s Electrolux fridge factory would remain secure even if the company lost a trade dispute with Korea, a spokesman said yesterday. Electrolux has launched an anti-dumping action alleging Korean whitegoods manufacturers LG and Samsung have been selling fridges in Australia for s…

The Board of Directors of AB Electrolux has decided to propose that the Annual General Meeting on April 20, 2005, approves a performance-based long-term share program, substantially identical to the program approved for 2004. The program covers less than 200 senior managers and key employees. The…

Coinciding with the International Women’s Day, consumer appliances major Electrolux India on Tuesday opened its first all-women outlet here and announced plans to open four more such showrooms in other cities this year. Electrolux India also launched its kitchen appliances Hobs & Hoods for th…

The small fridge plant at the Electrolux factory in Orange closed its doors for the final time last Friday. The closure of the plant, which was announced last April, was part of a restructure to make the Edward Street plant more globally competitive. Plant manager Scott Ostini said the plant was …

Swedish home appliances manufacturer Electrolux is to invest 130 million euros (approx. U.S. $170 million) to build two factories in southwestern Poland, the PAP news agency reported.

Electrolux, the world’s leading domestic appliance maker, has put 27 plants on an “at risk” list as it speeds up moves to switch production to low-cost countries to maintain its global competitiveness. Its factory at Spennymoor in County Durham, which employs 600 people and makes conventional coo…

Electrolux saw its shares rise 14% on Tuesday after it said it would be shifting more of its manufacturing to low-cost countries. The Swedish firm, the world’s largest maker of home appliances, said it is to relocate about 10 of its 27 plants in western Europe and North America.

Electrolux will shift more of its manufacturing to low-cost countries, dismaying its unions but boosting its share price by 14 percent as it grapples with rising raw material prices and stiff competition. The world’s top home appliances maker also said it expected to spin off to shareholders its …

Electrolux AB, the world’s largest maker of household appliances, will spin off its outdoor-products unit and step up the relocation of production after fourth-quarter net income fell 37 percent. Electrolux said it plans to have shifted most manufacturing by 2008 as part of a plan to save 2.5 bil…