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Midea Ramping Up U.S. Appliance Operations
Chinese appliance powerhouse Midea is expanding its R&D facilities in Louisville, Ky., as part of a market-share push in America. The vendor opened the...
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IFA: Samsung Debuts New AddWash & 10-Year SUHD No Burn-In Warranty
At its IFA press conference this morning, Samsung announced its quantum dot LED LCD SUHD TVs will be protected by a 10-year warranty against...
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Ex-Dacor President Steve Joseph Resurfaces At SideChef After Leaving Family Business
Steve Joseph, former president of Dacor and a scion of the company’s founding family, is back on the appliance scene. An early advocate of...
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Smart Appliances: Thermador Freedom Collection Culinary Preservation Centers
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! Every cook knows an ultimate meal requires the freshest, most flavorful ingredients – the entire culinary experience truly begins...
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LG’s InstaView Fridge Sheds Light On What’s Inside
LG Electronics’ latest door-in-door fridge adds a novel twist: a glass blackout panel that reveals the contents with two quick taps. The peek-a-boo feature...
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Haier Calling: GE’s Rob Posthauer Talks Post-Merger Plans
TWICE Exclusive! On June 6, General Electric handed off its iconic, 125-year-old appliance business to Chinese majap giant Qingdao Haier for $5.6 billion. Although the...
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Haier Goals: GE’s Rob Posthauer Talks Post-Merger Plans
On June 6, General Electric handed off its iconic, 125-year-old majap business to Chinese appliance giant Qingdao Haier for $5.6 billion. Although the ink is...
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Robotics/Unmanned Systems (Home Care): iRobot Roomba 980
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! The Roomba 980 is iRobot’s first cloud-connected vacuum cleaning robot that uses groundbreaking, proprietary visual simultaneous localization and mapping...
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Thermostats/Climate Control: Frigidaire Gallery Cool Connect Smart Room AC
The new Frigidaire Gallery Cool Connect Smart Room Air Conditioner is a sleek air conditioner unit that can connect to mobile devices so users...
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Microwave Ovens: Maytag Microwave With Fingerprint Resistance
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! The reliable over-the-range microwave, available in fingerprint-resistant stainless steel, is designed to get delicious to the table fast. Sensor...
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Dishwashers: Maytag Top Control Dishwasher
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! When it comes time for cleanup in the kitchen, a consumer’s dishwasher should be doing the work. The Maytag...
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LG’s John Riddle Joins AHAM Majap Board
John Riddle, senior VP of home appliances and air solutions at LG Electronics USA, will have to make room for another title. The white-goods...
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Electrolux Teams With Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop
Electrolux is taking social networking to a new level for its recently launched Perfect Steam laundry pair. After first tapping social influencers like fashion...
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Dryers: Maytag Large Capacity Dryer With Steam And PowerDry
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! When it comes to drying clothes, fast, consumers can depend on the Maytag Large Capacity Dryer with Refresh Cycle...
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Samsung Buying Dacor
Updated! Looking to tap into the high-margin, ultra-premium majap market, Samsung Electronics America (SEA) is snapping up Dacor, the family-run, luxury kitchen-appliance business. The...
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Electrolux Teams With Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop
Electrolux is taking social networking to a new level for its recently launched Perfect Steam laundry pair. After first tapping social influencers like fashion...
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Samsung, LG Hit With Import Fees For Chinese-Made Washers
Pending further investigation, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has ordered that cash deposits be collected on imports of Chinese-made Samsung and LG washers,...
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Sears Bested Lowe’s & Home Depot In July 4 Majap Promotions
The top three major appliance big-box chains battled it out during the Independence Day promotional period, and research firm Brand View has crowned a...
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Room ACs Get Smarter, More Efficient
This summer, technology has come to the rescue of AC window unit users who loathe coming home to a sweltering house or apartment. GE,...
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Long-Awaited White-Goods Now Reaching Retail Floors
A host of innovative home appliances, many that first surfaced at CES 2016, are finally wending their way to retail sales floors. Among the...
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Electrolux Taps Social Influencers To Tout New SmartBoost Washer
In a first-of-its-kind, all-social campaign for the company, Electrolux has enlisted a network of fashion bloggers and style authorities to support the national rollout...
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Is This The Refrigerator Of The Future?
Imagine a refrigerator with no compressor — hell, no moving parts at all, only a solid-state heat pump and natural refrigerant. Now picture this...
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Samsung Brings Two New Washers To Retail
Samsung Electronics America is rolling out two new feature-rich washers to retail sales floors, and broke a new pair of commercials to support them. The...
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LG Launches Luxury Signature Brand At Dwell On Design Show
Updated! LG Electronics returned to the influential Dwell on Design Los Angeles show last month, which served as the platform for its entrée into...
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Me, No Me: LG, Whirlpool Compete On Clothes Dryer Standard
It was a case of dueling announcements. Within minutes of one other, LG Electronics and Whirlpool claimed clothes-dryer compliance with the category’s first-ever voluntary...
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GE Launches First Smart ACs; Friedrich, Frigidaire Flaunt Power Grid Connection
Updated! This summer, technology has come to the rescue of AC window unit users who loathe coming home to a sweltering house or apartment....
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Whirlpool Connects With Innit’s Automated Cooking Platform
Select Jenn-Air appliances by Whirlpool will soon be able to assess what’s in the oven and draw from a vast online gastronomic database to...
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Thermador Turns 100
The sleek, minimalist and most decidedly modern designs of Thermador’s ultra-premium kitchen appliances belie the brand’s true age. This year the BSH Home Appliances...
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Whirlpool Connects With Innit’s Automated Cooking Platform
Select Jenn-Air appliances from Whirlpool will soon be able to assess what’s in the oven and draw from a vast online gastronomic database to provide custom...
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Bosch Cops EPA Emerging Tech Award
Bosch’s 24-inch stainless steel and glass-door refrigerators have earned a 2016 Energy Star Emerging Technology Award for their use of an environmentally friendly refrigerant....
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BSH Home Appliances To Open Third Design Center
BSH Home Appliances, parent to the Bosch, Thermador and Gaggenau brand family, has picked Chicago as the locale of its third design center showroom....
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12,000 Tee’d Off At Whirlpool Over Trump PGA Tourney
Whirlpool CEO Jeff Fettig is the target of nearly 12,000 petitioners who are urging the company to change the venue of next year’s KitchenAid-sponsored...
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LG Studio Range Wins Design Awards
LG’s Nate Berkus-inspired Studio slide-in gas range has copped two separate design awards. The model LSSG3016ST Studio range received gold awards from Appliance Design magazine,...
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What’s Next For GE Appliances As A Haier Company
It’s official: GE Appliances, America’s No. 2 white-goods brand, is now a unit of Qingdao Haier, the Chinese manufacturing giant, following the close of...
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Majap Briefs
Appliance Shipments Stall In April: AHAM Factory shipments of major appliances took it on the chin in April following months of solid gains, falling...
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Whirlpool Tapping Into Home-Brew Market
Beer drinkers may be hopping for joy now that Whirlpool has entered the home-brew market. The world’s largest majap manufacturer has launched a patented...
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Top 50 Major Appliance Retailers: Appliance Sales Grow 3.7%
OK, so it wasn’t the strongest year on the record books for major appliances. In fact, any time CE retail sales (up 4.3 percent...
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Whirlpool Brews Up Beer-Making Vessi Via Indiegogo
Hey, where was Whirlpool over the holiday weekend when we needed it? This morning the world’s largest appliance manufacturer announced the launch of a...
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Bosch Launches Lifestyle Blog
Bosch, the premium appliance brand, has launched a new lifestyle blog to help bring “inspired kitchen living” to both end users and the trade....
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Sears And Penney Add New Wrinkles To Appliance Retail
Longtime mall mates Sears and JCPenney are competing on more than just soft-lines now. Following a three-month, three-market test of major appliances, Penney is...
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Equator Crosses The 25-Year Mark
In an industry dominated by multinational giants, it’s not easy for a smaller player to compete, let alone for over two decades. But Equator...
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Haier Featured On ‘Designing Spaces’
Haier was ready for its close-up. The majap manufacturer was featured on “Designing Spaces” this morning, May 20, when the Lifetime home-improvement show offered...