A Which? investigation has uncovered an ‘alarming’ number of faulty kitchen appliances, causing thousands of house fires every year.
Category: Appliance
General non-specific news from the appliance industry including new products, spares, business news and more.
Inman Electrical Closes After 50 Years
Eighty workers have lost their jobs at the Sheffield based Inman Electrical applaince distributor after it experienced financial problems. Joint administrators Howard Smith, Mark Firmin and Paul Flint, from accountants KPMG, shut Orgreave-based Inman Electricals after deciding they were unlikely …
Pimp Your Fridge To Make It Fit Your Decor
Now you can funk up your fridge or fridge freezer and give it a custom look with with Kudu Magnets to turn a seemingly normal fridge freezer into something that may fit better with your own decor.
Citizens Advice To Take On OFT Role
The Citizens Advice service is to take over the consumer advice and information roles currently provided by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the Government has announced.
Best Buy To Shutter 50 Stores
American electrical retailer Best Buy has announced that it is to close fifty of its “big box” stores by the end of its fiscal year in 2013 confirming that the crisis in electrical retailing is not confined to the UK or Europe.
Numatic Launch A Direct Online Store
For a while now we have been watching the carnage in the retail secor and wondering to ourselves, how long will it be before some manufacturers just sell direct to end users and cut out the high street retailers altogether? It Seems that Numatic may be doing just that, albeit only in South Africa…
Marshall Amp Fridge Launched
Just what the world needed, a fridge that looks like a Marshall Amp has been launched in the USA although quite what the point is, we don’t know.
New City & Guilds Refrigeration Qualification Announced
For months the Whitegoods Trade Association (WTA), Liebherr and Amica have been working on a City & Guilds qualificaton specifically for domestic refrigeration service engineers which has been unveiled today at the Whitegoods Conference in Coventry.
Whitegoods Trade Association Logo And Meeting
The Whitegoods Trade Association has updated its logo to a more modern stance ahead of the Whitegoods Conference set to take place later this month in Coventry.
OFT Forces Extended Warranty Crackdown
Yesterday the Office of Fair Trading announced that it was to review undertakings from major retailers such as Currys, Comet and Argos before deciding whether or not to refer the matter to the Competition Commission.
