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Category: Domestic Appliance News
Domestic Appliance News
All the latest general news from the domestic appliance industry that we find all over the world, and stories that are of interest to the trade and public, often with our own unique non-politically correct spin on it.
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CORGI Pushes Installation & Exchange Costs Up
I received a letter this morning from CORGI detailing the “next step” as they call it in what they are terming their “Complete Safety Initiative” which, in my opinion, are nothing short of a money-making exercise and totally unnecessary. Of course at this stage the details are not clear but the o…
Amana enters contract talks with Machinists Union
DES MOINES, Iowa Negotiations have begun toward a new contract covering 15-hundred-30 union workers at Maytag Corporation’s Amana refrigerator plant. The workers at the plant in Middle Amana, about 15 miles southwest of Cedar Rapids are represented by Local 1526 of the International Association o…
Knox County board votes to settle with Maytag
GALESBURG, Ill. The Knox County board has approved a motion that allows the state’s attorney to seek a settlement from Maytag to recoup property tax breaks. State’s Attorney Paul Mangieri had requested that the board approve a lawsuit that seeks one-point-one (m) million dollars. But the board ye…
WhisperGen – something to shout about
The victory party’s over and it is the morning after the night before at Christchurch’s Whisper Tech after winning a $300 million deal to supply products to Britain. Colleen Simpson reports. Bill Highet’s phone has been running red-hot since news broke that Whisper Tech had netted a deal worth at…
Fuel Prices Set To Soar
Widely reported in the media today is that UK fuel prices are set to soar by some considerable margin which may make more energy efficient appliances a benefit to many consumers.
UK Consumers ”fed up with bad service”
The Independent Electrical Retailer dropped through the door thsi morning with an interesting little article on consumer service in the UK. Apparently a new survey out shows that 80% of UK consumers “are prepared to change service providers after just one negative experience”
Centrica: plumbing new heights
Energy suppliers’ moves into the home services domain was put firmly back into the spotlight last week as Centrica [CNA.L] was tipped to bid for Dyno-Rod and Powergen announced its tie up with Domestic and General. Bolstered by its successful sell-off of the AA, Centrica is in a good position to …
Recycling costs loom
Firms once again face the prospect of paying a recycling fee on electronic hardware, as the UK government decides how best to implement an EU directive on waste. The Department of Trade and Industry last week missed the EU deadline for implementing the Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (W…
Customer Holds Servis Engineer Hostage!
It has been reported in “Woman’s Own” magazine that a Servis customer, Therese O’Dell of Whetton in Derbyshire, held an engineer hostage as she had to wait six weeks to a resolution to her problem with a broken washing machine bought from Currys. Whilst not a terribly unusual story these days f…