Tradeplace, a consortium of leading European household appliance and consumer electronics manufacturers, together with Hubspan, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand integration solutions, announced record 2006 results achieved by Tradeplace members. The participating companies include the five l…
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Domestic Appliance News
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Turkish Beko sales rise hitting international markets
Beko has become one of the most rapidly rising companies in the Turkish electronics industry, according to Beko Electronic Co. Manager Oğuzhan Öztürk. While at the International Electronics Fair (IFA) in Berlin over the weekend, noted that Beko had created a great synergy upon merging with Arc…
AirWash designed for homes in 2020
A prototype washing machine which uses compressed air and negative ions to clean garments has recently picked up a design award and intended to be in home by 2020. The waterless AirWash device, created by Gabriel Tan and Wendy Chua, won the Index: Design to Improve Life prize and cleans clothes i…
MFI Launch Online Appliance Store
MFI have launched an online appliance store which appears to being handled by DRL Limited which also runs sites for other online appliance retail stores from the likes of Boots Kitchen Appliances, Sainsburys Kitchen Appliances and others. This new site is simply labeled as MFI Appliances.
Vacuums’ Claims to Remove Allergens Mean Less Than They Suggest
While vacuum marketers continue to push allergen relief along with the usual cleaning, results from a new Consumer Reports test show that those promises mean less than they suggest. Months of rigorous testing on vacuums at all price levels also showed that some new names and designs didn’t cut it…
Homeserve walks away from D&G
Homeserve said on Wednesday that it had terminated bid talks with Domestic & General, causing shares in the group which offers insurance for domestic appliances to fall 4.6 per cent or 56p to £11.76 in mid-session trading.
Haier Surges to Record First-Half Profit
Qingdao Haier Co., the air- conditioner and refrigerator unit of China’s biggest appliance maker, rose to a record on the Shanghai stock exchange after the company posted a 37 percent increase in first-half profit. The company’s shares gained 6.4 percent to 22.35 yuan as of the midday break, head…
Watchdog wants end to business banking controls
The Competition Commission said yesterday it wanted to lift price controls on business banking that it imposed in 2002, arguing the controls had succeeded in breaking up the dominance of the big four banks in accounts for small and medium-sized businesses. But the watchdog ran into severe critici…
Mitsubishi’s New Refrigerator Prevents Cell Destruction of Food
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will release refrigerators with “‘Syun’ freezing” function, which prevents cells of food from decaying when it is being frozen. Also, they can uniformly freeze food. Mitsubishi will launch six models, including a double-leaf model “MR-G57N,” in series from Sept. 25, 2007…
Dryer takes the hard work out of ironing
If washing clothes is a chore for some, ironing them is another thing entirely. But new to the market is a nifty dryer which could make this task a whole lot easier. The Electrolux Insight EDI96150 is equipped with what the manufacturer calls “iron aid”, as it is a condensing steam dryer which ai…