Category: Fisher & Paykel

Fisher & Paykel Appliances, one of New Zealand’s best known companies and a leading manufacturer of “white goods,” has entrusted the roll-out of its new fully managed global network to AT&T. The new network is designed to support the aggressive business expansion of Fisher & Paykel …

Fisher & Paykel Appliances Holdings Ltd. (FPA.NZ) is “very closely” watching its Asian competitors with fair trade issues in mind as it attempts once again to raise its product prices, Chief Executive John Bongard said. The New Zealand-based home appliance maker wants to lift its prices by 5%…

Word is reaching us that Whirlpool and Fisher & Paykel’s romance is over, in fact the story goes that the romance is dead and buried with any hope for reconciliation long gone. It has to be stressed that, at this time, there is no official comment from either through the usual press channels …

New Zealand-based appliance maker Fisher & Paykel (F&P) has signed a dealer agreement with specialty retail chain Noel Leeming, making the chain New Zealand’s largest specialist appliance retailer of F&P products.

Big New Zealand whiteware exporter Fisher & Paykel Appliances has raised its prices in the United States by 6 per cent as it joins a range of major appliance manufacturers covering increased costs for materials like steel and certain plastics. The New York Times reports that appliance makers …

The fate of a much heralded industrial park next to Fisher & Paykel Appliances’ Dunedin plant appears to be hanging in the balance. Dunedin City Council has put aside $1.5 million to establish an industrial mini-cluster for F & P’s big manufacturing suppliers, including an unnamed Christc…

A long-established New Zealand firm is making life harder for Fisher & Paykel Appliances by supplying a Chinese competitor. Scott Technology is two months into a $4 million contract supplying Haier with automated production lines for manufacturing its low-price home appliances.

High raw materials costs and low-cost imports from Asia prompted Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd. to cut its current year profit forecasts by as much as 19 percent.

Fisher & Paykel Appliances Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive John Bongard said he isn’t aware of any takeover bid from Whirlpool Corp., rebutting a report today in New Zealand’s Sunday Star-Times. “I am personally not aware of any such news,” Bongard said in a phone interview from Rangiputa, whe…

The investment activity of one of the world’s largest institutional fund managers is fuelling the prospect of another busy year for corporate deal-making. Since early December, US-based Capital Group has built a 7.9% stake in Kiwi whiteware manufacturer Fisher & Paykel Appliances. Other globa…