Category: Appliance

Boots is the latest high street chain to launch into the domestic appliance market, with 4,000 products now available online.

Beltek India is spreading its wings with a foray into the white goods segment. Following its tie-up with Maharaja Appliances, which has taken a 50 per cent stake in the company, Beltek will invest Rs 20 crore in putting into place its initial expansion plans.

Foreign household appliance companies like U.S. firm Carrier, Japan’s JVC and Sweden’s Electrolux Korea are accelerating their assault into the local market in the face of the sluggish economy. Coming out of devotion to household appliances, they recently began to assault schools, public agencies…

A FIVE-year-old boy was electrocuted in a refrigerator at the family home in Qena, Upper Egypt, after climbing inside to escape from the heatwave raging in the region, police reported.

Washers that talk to dryers, refrigerators that can be programmed to tell you what foods you’re out of, stoves that do everything but prepare the meal. It seems there’s no end to what our appliances can do – and what we’re willing to pay for them.

Proctor & Gamble, one of the largest household products manufacturers in the world, is going to help shape digital home efforts when it takes a seat on the Internet Home Alliance’s (IHA) board of directors Wednesday.

After receiving information that fake branded soap powder may have been on sale in the city, Dundee City Council’s trading standards officers carried out inspections in shops throughout the area.

A union leader said he believed General Electric Co. soon will announce a major layoff at its Bloomington refrigerator plant – perhaps cutting the jobs of as much as a third of its 1,800 workers.

TRADING standards officers have seized hundreds of boxes of fake soap powder from stores around West Dunbartonshire. The counterfeit packs of Bold Hawaii Fresh and Bold Aqua “” which could cause skin irritations “” were confiscated in an operation last week.

The just-filed Pacific Retail Group annual report reveals the company’s headache-causing UK acquisition PowerHouse has signed up for lease commitments totalling $1.6 billion. PRG is trying to turn around the almost bankrupt electronics chain which it bought last year and the latest accounts show …