Category: Appliance

Engineers of British Gas are to be balloted on industrial action after a 3rd rejection of the pay offer, engineers are said to be disgusted with the latest offer of £88.00 consolidated from the team reward which was also non pensionable.

Petrol prices were on course last night to break the pound-a-litre barrier after the cost of crude oil on global markets rose to its highest level this year.

The threat of the first national postal strike for over a decade drew closer last night as the union representing 130,000 Royal Mail workers threw out management’s final pay offer and opted to ballot members.

HI Group plc has set up a new home delivery service, fulfilling its aim to become a one-stop solution for both the B2B and B2C markets in the UK. HI Group, which already offers a storage and distribution service to manufacturers and retailers through its related company, HI Way Express, believes …

British Gas has seen the number of customer complaints more than double in a year, the energy watchdog said today.

ServicePower Technologies PLC posted a wider full-year pretax loss due to contract delays and higher administrative expenses but said it expects its Software as a Service (SaaS) and Outsourcing businesses to trade profitably for the first quarter of 2007.

Britons are spending more than £5.7 billion on household appliances every year, according to new research. Data from Halifax Credit Cards indicates the UK spent that figure in 2005 ““ a dramatic upturn from the £4.4 billion spent in 1995.

In another clue that the great pre-election giveaway is well underway, the government has launched a voucher scheme for firms to “become more innovative”.

Engineers at Tokyo University have developed two robots named HRP-2 NO.7 and NO.8. According to the developers, the two robots are domestic treasures and serve their owner together with one working as a “bartender” behind the kitchen counter and the other as a “waiter.” Though, the robot might lo…

Retailers will cut the size of their stores as internet shopping gains ground, predicted Dixons boss John Clare. Speaking at a Property in Business Conference last week, he said: “All of the increase in retail sales in the past three years in the UK has been online. Retail store sales have gone d…