Whirlpool Asks Consumers To `Just Imagine’
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — Whirlpool has launched a major U.S. ad campaign the company hopes will surpass Maytag’s repairman in terms of consumer recognition....
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BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — Whirlpool has launched a major U.S. ad campaign the company hopes will surpass Maytag’s repairman in terms of consumer recognition....
On the heels of a record year for floor care shipments — manufacturers’ sales to dealers of full-size vacuum cleaners jumped 10.4% last year,...
Cooking appliances will be in the spotlight at next week’s International Builders Show, with quick-cooking ovens getting much of the attention. The Builders Show,...
What’s cooking at this week’s Kitchen/Bath Industry Show (K/BIS) in Chicago? A full menu of new appliance technolog, from the largest single gathering of...
Gearing up for the important fourth-quarter selling season — and in the midst of a back-to-school period that grows stronger every year for the...
The 20th century is winding up on a positive note for the major appliance industry, as both retailers and suppliers end 1999 with impressive...
As the new year gets under way, appliance manufacturers are once again turning to rebates — the current promotional standby for the category —...
Haier America Trading, which got its start in the U.S. market selling compact appliances manufactured in China, is now branching out to larger, U.S.-made...
Brandwise.com, the online major appliance buying site, has pushed back its launch date and will now begin selling white goods over the Internet on...
For a category that once depended on August back-to-school sales for a large chunk of its annual volume, compact appliances have made a remarkable...
For the second time in six months, a full-line major appliance manufacturer has gone to its European operations to tap a top executive, underlying...
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...
A month after CES attendees got a look at new Internet-enabled major appliances — products of Whirlpool’s agreements with both Cisco Systems and Sun...
The futuristic prototypes Maytag highlighted at the recent Kitchen/Bath Industry Show are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how the company...
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....
Innovations in cooking technology — including features designed to make meal preparation faster, with more flexibility — were on view at the recent Kitchen/Bath...
New technology, producing im-provements in all types of appliances — from faster cooking to quieter dishwashing to more convenient food and beverage storage —...
Floor care manufacturers are offering a fresh crop of vacuum cleaners this spring, using advanced technology designed to give retailers something new to talk...
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...
From a refrigerator with a built-in computer to a robotic vacuum cleaner, appliances and floor care have had their share of technological innovations this...
With its long-awaited push to expand its major appliance marketing just getting under way, Home Depot has stopped ordering majaps from Whirlpool, at least...