Category: Appliance

In a press release we picked up this morning it is reported that consumers are being overcharged 50% of the time by repair firms offering fixed prices which include parts, says Midlands-based appliance repair company Domestic Heroes Limited.

Shoppers should be able to keep tabs on how much a washing machine or fridge costs to run for a year under plans to help families curb energy bills. Ministers will ask stores to display the annual electricity costs for white goods and appliances on price tags. This would bring them into line with…

Appliance makers LG, Whirlpool and Electrolux are raising prices to pass soaring raw material costs on to customers, but their attempts may not pass muster with bargain hungry shoppers. Both Whirlpool and Electrolux reporting quarterly profits that fell short of estimates as they grapple with tep…

The Daily Mail has reported that (for some strange reason) that a study has been carried out on socks and other small items that go missing from the laundry. The article goes on to state that this isn’t just a domestic nuisance it can cost a £240 a year per household.  Researchers have…

A new breed of fridge that can stay cool for up to 10 days without any power has been developed by a British company. Besides keeping food and medicines fresh for longer during outages, in future it could cope well with the power cuts imposed on refrigeration appliances by renewable-energy-powere…

Consumer durables firm Hitachi would enter the washing machine business by end of this year, a top company official said here today. “We are looking into washing machines. We intend to launch seven kg and above top loading washing machines and front loading machines,” Hitachi Home and Life Soluti…

In 2010, China’s home appliance industry achieved retail sales of 1.04 trillion yuan ($157.70 billion), marking a new record high in over 10 years, according to the Beijing Times citing reports from China Market Monitor Co. Ltd. Sunday.

The Japanese electrical appliance company Sharp has entered the domestic washing machine market for the first time, expecting the products to help it lift overall sales by 25% in 2011, according to Tatsuya Miyagi, managing director of Sharp Thai. “Even though we are a new player in the washing ma…

Nearly half of Britons claim they would try to get a major electronic item repaired if it broke, rather than splashing out on a new one, a survey has suggested. Around 48% of people said they would get a quote on repairing items such as their television, washing machine, cooker, fridge or laptop,…

The Office Of Fair Trading (OFT) has today formally announced that it is launching a review of the domestic electrical goods sector to focus on both whitegoods (large domestic appliances) and browngoods (consumer electronics such as televisions) as they suspect that the markets are not currently …