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Apple reports that Sears will join CompUSA as the second nation-wide iMac dealer starting on May 31 and will start shipping two new G3...

If a device is created by Microsoft, powered with an Intel processor, is Internet ready and has a DVD-ROM drive, it must be a...

Sony reported that beginning in June it will expand its online computer build-to-order program with the addition of the Sony Business Direct web site...

New York — Personal data assistants and rewritable DVD products may have grabbed the headlines at PC Expo, but there was no shortage of...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — In one of their biggest shows ever, MARTA Cooperative of America members reported majap and consumer electronics sales were up for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Major appliance manufacturers took a hit in August, with factory sales falling in nearly every category compared to year-ago shipments, according...

Beginning this fall, a new Internet firm launched by Whirlpool and two other companies will offer both retailers who lack web sites and those...

The competition among major appliance manufacturers is heating up away from the retail floor as well as on it: Whirlpool recently sued General Electric...

After a year in which strong air conditioner sales boosted most appliance stores’ profits, major appliance manufacturers and retailers alike are optimistic about the...

After a year of market testing amid intense industry speculation, home-improvement giant The Home Depot is poised to launch a chainwide rollout of major...

In April, CMI Worldwide begins delivering its iCEBOX, the countertop version of the company’s “infopliance” for the kitchen. The unit — which includes a...

Maytag’s recent announcement to its dealers that it is exploring various Internet options has caused a flurry of retailer protest about indications it will...

MARTINEZ, Ga. — The Electrolux brand name will soon turn up on major appliances sold in U.S. stores, now that Frigidaire Home Products parent...

Despite a stepped-up competitive pace in 1998 that drove two veteran appliance/electronics retailers out of business and forced a large regional utility company to...

The appliance industry’s largest exposition of the year — the 1999 Kitchen/Bath Industry Show — kicks off in Orlando, Fla., on April 16, offering...

What do retailers want? The major appliance industry’s primary supplier forum got some answers at this month’s Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers annual meeting....

Appliances designed to sell later this year, as well as later this decade, took center stage at this month’s Kitchen/Bath Industry Show in Chicago,...

Brian Kelley, a highly visible member of GE Appliances’ top management team at trade shows and buying group meetings in recent years, has resigned...

Their confidence in 1999 sales prospects buoyed by strong first-quarter sell-through in virtually every major appliance category, white-goods manufacturers let themselves go in terms...

It was the kind of room air conditioner season manufacturers and retailers dream about: That’s the consensus as AC suppliers total up the numbers...

With hot weather boosting air conditioner sales and first-half results looking better than expected, appliance manufacturers at the recent annual AHAM meeting in Washington,...

Goodman Manufacturing, parent of Amana Appliances, has a new management team in place following the departure of two top executives, including chairman-CEO Frank Murray,...

A Texas-based e-commerce firm that has been selling major appliances to local area consumers over the Internet for several months now hopes to expand...

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Crosley brand this month, Crosley Corp. is looking to new products introduced at its recent national convention to...

Sony Recording Media and Energy Group is about to launch a new three-dimensional design for its CD-IT and CD-IT Pro blank audio cassette line....

To “e-” or not to “e-” was the question for many gift-shoppers during the recent holiday selling season. According to eight e-commerce experts gathered...

After six years of assurances from the electronics industry that compatibility standards for digital TV were imminent, Federal Communications Commission chairman Bill Kennard is...

Thanksgiving comes but once a year… and brings one more opportunity to offer customers a little something extra in the way of a sale-closer....

With new technology whetting shoppers’ interest in home theater and big-screen TV, the Best Brands Plus (BBP) buying group is encouraging its members to...

Speed was a dominant concept among the major appliance companies exhibiting at the International Builders Show — speed in cooking, as three full-line white-goods...

Cobra Electronics is “gradually moving away from telephones to put more emphasis on FRS,” according to president Jim Bazet. The company dropped its 25-channel...

RetailVision Fall ’99, scheduled for September 14-17 in Chicago, is offering an event-packed agenda, including face-to-face private boardroom appointments, What’s In Store presentations, world...

The joint venture between Thomson Multimedia (TMM), the Paris-based partially state-owned electronics giant, and Alcatel, a French producer of next-generation communications products, is certain...

Conair will continue to pursue a more traditional but higher-end approach with its Southwestern Bell brand and continue to stress styling innovation in its...

Almost 300 vendors and about 250 retailers and e-tailers convened at Chicago’s Sheraton and Towers Hotel on the Chicago River to attend Fall ’99...

Maytag Corp. president and chief operating officer Lloyd Ward has been named to succeed chairman and chief executive officer Leonard Hadley when he retires...

Viking, known for its ultra-premium professional kitchen products, is expanding its line to include refrigerators and two new sizes of dual-fuel ranges. Available in...

Maytag Appliances is introducing its new Gemini twin-oven electric range, which incorporates two separate self-cleaning ovens — a larger full-size 4.0-cubic-foot one on the...

There’s something in the air besides more broadcasting signals, and that’s a growing interest in and excitement about outdoor antennas. They have never been...

Take one American blank tape icon (Memorex, Is it live or is it…), add a few seasoned executives, a few new product categories, stir...

Telephones that connect to a computer to provide advanced messaging capabilities, Web phones and video phones are at CES in force, along with a...

AT&T Consumer Products, the nation’s leading marketer of telephones and answerers, will be moving into a new company, getting new management, and possibly (although...