A British court has ordered South Korean electronics company Samsung to pay British company Dyson a likely £590,000 for trying to patent the vacuum cleaner maker’s triple-cyclone technology. A year ago, unlisted Dyson took Samsung to court to revoke two British patents of its three-cyclone …
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Whirlpool Subpoenaed In Anti-Trust Case
Whirlpool Corp. said it received a grand jury subpoena for documents related to a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust investigation into the global compressor industry. Authorities also visited Whirlpool Corp. subsidiaries in Brazil and Italy Tuesday seeking similar information, according to a p…
Gorenje Comments On Financials & Future Goals
Slovenian appliance maker the Gorenje Group said that despite the economic slowdown, the company is adapting and ensuring its long-term health. CEO Franjo Bobinac said, “In [the] first two months of this year the level of orders is lower by 20 to 25% compared to the same period of last year. That…
Production Restarts At Antonio Merloni
Production at Antonio Merloni’s (Servis UK/Electra) plants in Fabriano will resume from the 16th to 20th February at Santa Maria and Maragone. Reports indicate that there will only be four of five work days, as initially estimated and, the staff that it will come recalled are reported to be aroun…
Hotpoint’s Bodelwyddan Factory In Doubt
THE future of the Indesit/Hotpoint washing machine factory in Bodelwyddan may be under review. The company’s European Works Council will meet at their headquarters in Peterborough this Thursday.
Electrolux To Close Refrigerator Factory In Changsha
Electrolux said it will close its low-end refrigerator manufacturing facilities in Changsha in central China’s Hunan province. The move is in-line with the company’s repositioning as a vendor of high-end products, said Gunilla Nordstrom, the company’s newly appointed China president.
Whirlpool Profits Fall By 76%
Whirlpool has reported a 76 percent drop in quarterly profit as sales crumbled worldwide, and the world’s biggest appliance maker said earnings would fall further in 2009, sending its shares down more than 9 percent. The maker of Whirlpool, Maytag and Kitchen Aid appliances also posted an operati…
More Appliance Industry Job Losses Forecast
Kurt-Ludwig Gutberlet, the chairman of CECED (Conseil Europ©en de la Construction d’appareils Domestiques) has stated that “We see a number of job cuts in the months to come, although in the case of our company, we’ve been able to adapt via a flexible workforce,” Mr Gutberlet is also chairma…
Indesit To Close Turin Dishwasher Plant
The appliance manufacturer Indesit plans to close a plant in Turin, leaving some 600 people without work, according to several Italian newspapers. The plant had only recently been restructured to produce a new line of ecological dishwashers.
Electrolux Reports $57 Million Loss In Fourth Quarter
Electrolux said yesterday that it had swung to a loss of 474 million kronor (US$57 million) in the fourth quarter as the global financial turmoil drove up costs and forced it to impose temporary production shutdowns. The group, which in December announced it would lay off 3,000 staff worldwide, a…