Category: LG

Not to be outdone by Samsung’s smart fridge release, LG Electronics on Tuesday unveiled a refrigerator which suggests recipes as it forecast a bright future in the potentially lucrative market for “smart” household appliances.

LG have issued the following press release: LG Electronics-brand residential front-load clothes washers achieved the number one share of the U.S. market, based on revenues, during the fourth quarter of 2010, according to market data from The Stevenson Company’s TraQline report. This marks the 16t…

Lee Young-ha, the head of LG Electronics’ home appliance division, says that LG Electronics, which competes with the likes of Whirlpool and Electrolux for global supremacy in home appliances, aims to be the industry’s undisputed kingpin by 2014.

CES Las Vegas rolls around once more and, once more we see the introduction of connected appliances being hailed as a “great new thing”. Trouble is, it’s been done before and people don’t want it but hey, what do the customer’s know? The reality is, people want washers to wash stuff, cookers to c…

LG Electronics is unveiling its full range of smart appliances, enabled by LG THINQ Technology, at the 2011 International CES®. Comprising five key features ““ Smart Grid, Smart Diagnosis, Smart Access, Smart Adapt and Food Management ““ LG THINQ Technology offers a complete smart…

LG Electronics USA Inc. asked a federal court jury to award it $60 million in profits the company’s attorney said Whirlpool Corporation reaped by falsely advertising the steam capabilities of its clothes dryers. LG lawyer Lawrence Desideri made his request to the panel of 10 women and one man tod…

In a small report today Rueters has reported that LG states it aims to double it’s global appliance revenues by 2014. A senior LG executive said that this would be done by new products such as energy-efficient refrigerators, and overtake both Whirlpool and Electrolux as the largest appliances pro…

LG are to spend $8.9 million (USD) to expand the production of refrigerators at the Sino Joint Stock Company (Samarkand), the monopoly producer of refrigeration and freezing equipment in Uzbekistan, according to the Uzeltekhprom association, which includes Uzbekistan’s electrical companies.

LG has said that its improved drum washing machines have gained popularity in Europe over the past six months. LG Electronics has sold more than 10,000 units of the “Big-in” drum washer in Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy since October of last year, the company said.

The electronics giant LG has been alleged to be cheating on energy-use tests for a popular fridge and will have to compensate customers in the USA and now in Australia as well. So this would appear to be a global tactic although we obviously can’t say that for sure. Nick Stace, CEO of Choice whic…