Carphone Warehouse has won the auction to buy the UK’s third-largest internet provider, AOL UK. BBC business editor Robert Peston said Carphone Warehouse, owner of the TalkTalk broadband and phone offering, was paying £370m for the operation.
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Domestic Appliance News
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Electrolux Invests in Zanussi Manufacturing in UK
Electrolux will start producing a new line of Zanussi ranges in 2007 at a plant on the Merrington Lane Industrial Estate in Spennymoor, County Durham, United Kingdom, according to a report in the UK’s The Northern Echo. The manufacturing start-up comes after an investment of £7 million. The…
Haier set to start local Indian production
Haier Appliances India Pvt Ltd, the fully-owned subsidiary of the $12.9 billion Chinese multinational Haier group, is planning to set up a manufacturing facility in India, three years after it began operations in the country. This is in line with the company’s plans for a greater share of the Rs …
repairs@ Repairers Sweep D&G TEQ Awards
This year, in the whitegoods category of the Domestic & General TEQ (Technical Excellence and Quality) Awards all three winners are also UK Whitegoods repairs@ agents. All of these companies have previously won an award for cusrtomer service from Domestic & General.
Electrician’s death was a tragic accident
A coroner’s jury has returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of a washing machine repairman from Borehamwood, who was electrocuted at work earlier this year. Peter Roseman, known as John to friends and family, was fixing a washing machine in Sutton Path, Borehamwood, on January 12 this…
Lord Hunt calls for renewed action on gas safety
At a gas safety stakeholder forum on Monday 2 October, hosted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Lord Hunt of Kings Heath made it clear that complacency on gas related carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is not an option. Research commissioned from University College London by HSE to inform its…
Consumers To Be Charged For WEEE?
The implementation of an environmental recycling charge (ERC) is supported by a number of industry associations, according to reports. The current argument regarding costs is based on the requirement, set out in the WEEE directive, that all producers and suppliers must take responsibility for rec…
Whirlpool To Fire 1200 Workers
Whirlpool will lay off 1,200 U.S. workers and expand production at a Mexican factory. The big Michigan appliance maker said Tuesday it would expand production of side-by-side refrigeration products at its Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, facility beginning in 2007.
Siemens bosses donate £3.4m pay rise to workers
Siemens executives yesterday agreed to put off a 30% pay rise for a year and contribute the €5m (£3.4m) to a €35m fund to retrain some of the 3,000 employees threatened with redundancy at its stricken former mobile phone business. The German technology group has suffered a torrent…
Dyson Re-Launch Their Washing Machine, Or Do They?
There’s been rumours for months now that Dyson was going to resurect the Contrarotator washing machine with not-so-subtle hints being dropped all over the place by none other than James Dyson himself in the press. This morning I came across a couple of articles that seem to indicate that the mach…