Category: Appliance

Warrington based white goods company, Premium Appliance Brands (PAB), has acquired the appliance division of Bernstein Group Holdings in a deal on which PAB were advised by Manchester law firm, Cobbetts.

The Consumers’ Institute of New Zealand said today that the maker of Finish PowerBall tablets will give refunds for damage and additional costs caused to dishwashers by the cleaning product.

As a follow up to the story earlier in the week, thousands of British Gas engineers are to stage five 24-hour strikes in the run-up to Christmas and after New Year.

Engineers at British Gas have voted for strike action in a dispute over the company’s final salary pension scheme. The GMB union said nearly 6,000 engineers, who repair and service domestic boilers, backed the move by a ratio of four to one.

Whites are slowing but independent retailers are doing better. SALES of white goods in 2005 are expected to be down by around five per cent, in volume terms, as the industry comes to term with the tough trading conditions brought on by subdued consumer confidence and increasing competition betwee…

The report sums up the development of the global and Chinese washing machine markets in 2004. Through detailed data and full elaboration, it reveals from various angles the structure of China’s washing machine market, the features of supply and demand relationship and the pattern of competition a…

A WASHING machine repair man who left his job to travel the world has published a book about his adventures.

A mother who killed her family cat by putting it in a washing machine was jauiled for six weeks yesterday.

Russell Hobbs commemorated the Golden Jubilee of the world’s first electric automatic kettle, launched in 1955. The K1 kettle, the first automatic electric kettle, was on display.

The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) was informed that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cleared the proposed acquisition of the personal care appliance maker Gillette Company.