Category: Appliance

Nearly 5,000 miles from Procter & Gamble’s Cincinnati headquarters is the company’s fastest growing market – Russia. Moscow residents are snapping up Tide, Pampers and other P&G products, and sales are growing 50 percent a year.

LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) – The British government begins scrutiny of a competition report on Tuesday likely to spell trouble for electrical goods retailers like Dixons Group Plc whose profits rely heavily on sales of warranties.

The collection route for the waste electrical recycling scheme Transform could change as a result of one of its founding partners, Endeva, being placed into administrative receivership last night.

Workers at many PowerHouse stores across the Black Country and Staffordshire are to keep their jobs under new owners, it has emerged today.

Low-income families in West Norfolk are being offered the chance to trade in their old fridge or freezer for a new energy-efficient model.

Two of the Teesside stores in a collapsed electrical retail chain have been saved, it emerged today. Fears flared for the future of two PowerHouse outlets at Teesside Retail Park, Stockton, and one at Skippers Lane Industrial Estate, South Bank, when the company went into administration.

Now I know why my refrigerator should be connected to the Internet.

As predicted in the forums a few days ago fuel prices are set to rise yet again, from the BBC this morning: Fuel duty will rise by 1.28p a litre from 1 October, the Treasury has confirmed.

Deliveries of goods bought by PowerHouse customers before the electrical chain’s collapse will be honoured by its new owners.

AUSTIN, Texas – Bill Bodin has no excuse for going out to lunch. He has – without a doubt – the coolest kitchen in town. It talks. It cooks. It can be controlled from his cell phone, PDA, pager or laptop. And it’s all in his workplace, a sleek computing lab at IBM.