Hisense’s washing machine was awarded the industry’s 2010 Energy-Saving and Clean-Washing Pioneer during the 2010 China Washing Machines & Refrigerator Industry Summit Forum, held November 27 in Hefei. Hisense’s Apollo Space series drum washer earned the Safety Design Award for its unique doo…
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Domestic Appliance News
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Electrolux Cutting Jobs In Canada & Europe
Electrolux has said it will close a cooking product factory in Quebec, Canada, and cut 800 European jobs as one of the final acts of its eight-year effort to shift manufacturing to countries with lower production costs. Electrolux will close the factory in l’Assomption, Quebec, in 2013, affecting…
More Comet Sell Off Rumours Emerge But Results Better
Kesa which is Europe’s No. 3 electricals retailer, beat forecasts with a 52% rise in first-half profit and said it was well positioned for the crucial Christmas trading period. “We have prepared all our businesses for what we expect to be a competitive peak trading period and will continue to imp…
Dyson Servicing Scam Alert
Which? has reported that Dyson is warning customers to be wary of a scam involving bogus companies offering vacuum cleaner servicing whilst masquerading as official Dyson engineers. Around 760 Dyson owners have been conned into paying up to £150 for a vacuum cleaner service, after being ‘ba…
Activist Investor Fuels Comet Break Up Or Sell Off Speculation
Knight Vinke was not commenting yesterday as the activist investor added to its stake in Kesa Electricals, the owner of Comet. The asset management group bought 3.32m shares in the retailer on November 19 ““ worth about £5.3m based on the company’s closing share price of 159.9p on the…
Office Of Fair Trading Launches Review Of Domestic Electrical Goods
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 …
Dixons Announces A “fundamental shift” In Service
It has been reported that Dixons is overhauling its service business by introducing Knowhow, a new service brand that aims to help customers of its PC World and Currys stores get the best out of their purchases. Dixons says that Knowhow is not just a relabelling of its service programme but a f…
Panasonic To Build Home Appliance Plants In Brazil & India
Panasonic has disclosed plans Monday to build home appliance factories in Brazil and India to sell more products at mass-market prices in emerging nations. In Brazil, the company will spend about 6 billion yen to begin local production of refrigerators and washing machines on a roughly 170,000 sq…
Candy Washing Machines Exploding
After the story from the end of last week we have now also heard of Candy “Go” washing machines also “exploding”. Unfortunately for Candy Hoover, this happened in a German test lab and then reports of such incidents started to come in from the field. This failure was highlighted by a German telev…
Hotpoint & Indesit Washing Machines Rattling Apart
Further to reports of an Indesit washing machine “blowing up” recently in Hatfield it would appear, from our sources in the industry, that this is due to a design flaw with this particular production sold in the UK under the Hotpoint and Indesit brand names. As yet however, despite the obvious se…