Category: Appliance

The Kleenmaid kitchen and laundry appliance business founded by a washing machine repair man almost 25 years ago has entered into administration owing $67 million AUS. Administrators said yesterday up to 150 staff had been made redundant, with Kleenmaid’s 20 stores across Australia, which include…

Chris Dawson has pulled off another coup by buying £29million worth of electrical goods from a failed retailer Empire Direct. Reportedly Plymouth’s richest man, with a reported fortune of more than £150 million, fought of competition from across Europe to complete the deal to buy Empi…

New minimum standards designed to ensure that only energy efficient household products are sold in the European market will help the UK save £150 million a year, the government has said. Sustainability minister Lord Hunt of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said…

Users of HCFC refrigerants are being urged to prepare for the imminent phasing out of these products, and to consider how they will be affected and what action to take. The EC Regulation on Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) (2037/2000) came into force on 1 October 2000, with immediate effect in th…

Speaking at Retail Week’s conference in central London yesterday, Best Buy vice chairman and chief executive Brad Anderson told attendees that the firm was “hoping to take significant share”, but that it was not the sole focus for the firm. “What is more important [to Best Buy] is maximum share o…

This morning the electricals retailer Apollo 200 has entered into administration and it appears likely that some customers may not receive the good that they have ordered. The company’s website has been closed down with a message from the appointed administrator, KPMG all that is available.

Wisconsin refrigerator maker Sub-Zero Freezer/Wolf Appliance says it will lay off up to 350 local employees after 1st May. Chuck Verri, Sub-Zero Freezer/Wolf Appliance’s vice president of human resources, told the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, Wis., that the layoffs are being prompted by th…

An appliance company based in Honolulu (K-N-D Appliances and proprietors Kelly and Dennis Higashi) has filed a putative class action against several refrigerator component manufacturers and sellers, including Whirlpool, Tecumseh Products, and Panasonic, alleging the companies engaged in a conspir…

Kurt-Ludwig Gutberlet, the chairman of CECED (Conseil Europ©en de la Construction d’appareils Domestiques) has stated that “We see a number of job cuts in the months to come, although in the case of our company, we’ve been able to adapt via a flexible workforce,” Mr Gutberlet is also chairma…

As we’ve stated previously in articles we don’t think that much of the current EU labels for energy use but there have been plans drawn up to change them. The sad thing is that, from what we can tell, this change will serve only to make it even more confusing than it already is.