Category: Whirlpool

Whirlpool is getting into smart ovens like the June and others with a funky oven seen at CES in Las Vegas that is connected to the internet and will supposedly cooker most anything for you.

To some this might seem to be common sense and no doubt 3D printing aficionados will be thinking that the is great, print their own replacement parts but, it as you might expect just ain’t that simple.

Whirlpool has announced that it’ to exit the Turkish market and drop Hotpoint branded small appliances as well as raise prices due to increased costs.

We sorta saw this one coming as tariffs on steel were announced by a certain US president but Whirlpool’s problems seem a perfect storm of bad fortunes, literally.

At this year’s CES, despite the war of voice assistants, Whirlpool has revealed appliances that have Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa integrated into them and that also integrate with Yummly.

Whirlpool has decided to put an end to it’s discounted tumble dryer offer for people that own model s affected by the safety notice on them and, that’s not exactly going over well in some camps. Government included.

Whirlpool might have done okay in it’s home market of the USA but increases there are not compensating for the tanking in other regions with profits from dipping lower during the second quarter, and the Whirlpool has lowered its earnings guidance, blaming rising raw-material inflation and slow Ch…

Longstanding Whirlpool head honcho Jeff Fettig is to stand down as CEO to be replaced by Marc Bitzer from the start of October.

This is just weird, Whirlpool have apparently agree to buy the US digital recipe platform Yummly in what is widely regarded as a move to strengthen Whirlpool’s digital offering on connected appliances.

It would seem that the integration of Indesit hasn’t gone so well for Whirlpool which, many in the industry will not exactly be shocked about.