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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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NZ PRG’s CEO Moves To UK To Manage Acquisition
WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)–Pacific Retail Group Ltd. (A.NLL), a New Zealand electronics and appliance retailer, said Friday its Chief Executive Peter Halkett has moved permanently to the U.K. to manage Powerhouse, an electrical goods seller that Pacific Retail bought earlier this month.
Decision doesn’t wash with Fisher and Paykel
Fisher and Paykel Appliances said it would appeal an Australian Customs Service decision about washing machines being exported from Korea at below-market prices.
Energy wastage: do savings really begin at home?
September 17, 2003 6:58 PM GMT (Datamonitor) – According to the latest research from the Energy Saving Trust, British households are responsible for over a quarter of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions, much of that through inefficient energy usage. However, it is in the large industrial sect…
Whirlpool’s Kitchen Aid’ products to hit US markets next year
IS India likely to get the most favoured nation status as far as popularity of our exports goods is concerned? Though the `made in India’ brand is still at a very nascent stage, there is a positive movement towards the brand’s acceptance, industry insiders reveal.
JV buyout plan
The Electrolux Group plans to buy out its joint venture factory in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, this year as part of the Swedish company’s program to turn the plant into its global production base.
Kesa upbeat despite sales malaise
The company’s French chains battle retail slowdowns, while UK Comet stores tackle a downturn in warranty sales and the loss of trade to supermarkets.
Godrej Appliances to go global
AHMEDABAD: Indian consumer durables maker Godrej Appliances Limited is all set to take on MNC durables makers on foreign lands. The company is taking the Godrej brand of refrigerators and washing machines global this fiscal year with a foray into Sri Lanka planned for the third quarter of 2003-04
LG world’s first to mass produce ‘Green’ Fridge
LG Electronics has embarked on full scale mass production of its popular side-by-side refrigerators adopting state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly compressors. The step marks a first-of-its-kind production move from a white goods maker in the world.
Machine-to-machine talk not stuff of fiction
It’s now possible for your refrigerator to talk to your toaster and your vacuum cleaner. The question is what they might say.