The Daily Mirror reports that Whirlpool UK has taken a massive financial hit due to the current and well known about safety modification to tumble dryers that can catch fire, now we know more.
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.
We cover almost anything interesting to do with appliances or that affects the industry, including new product releases, scandals, recalls, mergers, takeovers and all the other juicy appliance news from around the world.
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Washing Machine Uber
Electrolux thinks that there’s a market for sharing your washing machine with friends, neighbours and prefect stranger apparently in a sharing scheme akin to the model used by Uber.
Belling Rebooted
Belling has pumped in £1.5 million to the relaunch of two of its iconic range cookers, the Farmhouse and the Cookcentre.
The End Of Brighthouse?
We’ve highlighted this in the past as a really, really expensive way to buy anything and most of the trade aren’t really fans will we say of Brighthouse but it appears that the retailer may be facing some real problems.
Whirlpool Polish R&D
It seems that changes are going on in Whirlpool with them announcing to day that they are to set up a global research centre for refrigeration and dishwasher products in Poland.
Exploding Washer Lawsuit
It didn’t take that long, perhaps a little longer than we’d thought but it was almost inevitable that a lawsuit would be launched in the United States over Samsung’s exploding washing machines.
Russian Washing Machines
Could your next appliance be made in Russia, if reports are correct than it may well be the case that a lot of appliances will be Russian made in the near future.
Brexit Tax?
This website said this would happen some time ago and our fears appear to have come true with several retailers now reportedly looking at raising prices in a post-Brexit Britain.
Samsung Recall Delays
Over the course of this year we have been contacted by various media outlets over the delays in carrying out modifications to recalled appliances and, the answer is always the same, there simply aren’t enough field technicians to cope with these huge recalls.
Post Brexit Parts Prices
We all kinda knew this was coming as we warned after the referendum calling for the UK to leave the European Union but we’re sorry to say, we are starting to see multiple price increases on spare parts as the effects of the looming Brexit begin to be felt.