Category: Appliance

The Mail has reported that hundreds of children are being accidentally poisoned by detergent capsules according to experts. Many needed emergency hospital treatment for serious burns to the skin, eyes and throat when they bit or pierced the brightly coloured liquid capsules.

A Worcestershire man has invented an “extending” washing machine which he says will cope with twice the load. Chris Piponides said the drum and front of the machine “extend telescopically” so it only requires an extra foot of floor space when in use.

Best Buy, the world’s largest electricals retailer, is reported to be creating 8,000 jobs in the UK over the next five years and is gearing up to open its first stores this coming spring, directly challenging Currys and Comet. Best Buy, which operates a partnership with Carphone Warehouse in Euro…

Recently we’ve all seen the calls from the manufacturers and AMDEA, the appliance manufacturer’s trade association, for people to junk their old appliance and buy a new more efficient and “green” one. Thing is though, is that really financially sensible? We recently looked at fridge freezers and …

Majority of firms believe insurers are not assessing risk accurately and that the Government’s top-up scheme should be extended. According to the British retail Consortium’s (BRC) latest Quarterly Credit Conditions Monitor, 38% of large retailers and 28% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME…

Focus, Britain’s fourth largest retail DIY chain, took a step closer back towards breakeven – and perhaps towards profitability – in the year to February 22, according to latest results filed at Companies House.

NTK Holdings, Inc. and Nortek, Inc. (“Nortek” and, together with NTK, the “Companies”) yesterday announced that the Companies have received votes accepting their prepackaged plans of reorganization (the “Prepackaged Plan”) from all voting classes of Nortek creditors and one voting class of NTK cr…

Midea Electric Appliances Co. Ltd (Midea) and Wuxi Little Swan Co., Ltd announced Tuesday that Midea will sell a 69.47 percent stake of its subsidiary that specializes in manufacturing washing machines to Little Swan for 720 million yuan to end internal competition. Midea is a shareholder of Litt…

Viking Range Corporation has laid off 30 more employees in Greenwood. Bill Crump, Viking’s director of governmental affairs, told the Greenwood Commonwealth that the layoffs, which came this past week, involved salaried and hourly workers.

Retailer Iceland has shed more than 120 jobs after deciding to close its electrical showrooms. Deeside-based Iceland opted to “˜review’ the future of its white goods business earlier this year and 122 staff have now been made redundant.