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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...
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LG Encouraging Fridge Flipping With Earth-Friendly Promo
LG Electronics is taking the Earth- and sales-volume-friendly “Flip Your Fridge” campaign to sales floors nationwide. The effort, initiated by the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
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Appliance Shipments Stall In April
Factory shipments of major appliances took a dive in April following months of solid gains, falling 10 percent in unit volume year over year....
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GE Profile & Cafe Dishwashers Will Take A Shine To Silverware
We don’t know about you, but for us there’s nothing as disheartening in dishwashing as unloading racks of newly cleaned tableware only to find...
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GE: First With IFTTT Apps For All Appliance Categories
GE Appliances has a full house. The appliance giant is now represented by IFTTT mobile apps across all of its white-goods categories, including cooking,...
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Samsung Goes Wide With Family Hub Fridge
Samsung’s feature-rich and richly priced Family Hub refrigerator will make its formal marketplace debut across multiple retail channels on Mother’s Day. The nearly $6,000...
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March Came In Like A Lion For Majaps
Factory shipments of major appliances were up nearly 7 percent in March, ending the first quarter of 2016 on a high note. Driving the...
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Climatic Adds Smeg Kitchen Suite To Appliance Roster
National appliance distributor Climatic Home Products has added Italy’s Smeg line of premium kitchen majaps to its white-goods offering. The distribution partnership covers a...
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LG, Best Buy & Rachael Ray Want To ‘Flip Your Fridge’
LG and Best Buy are once again teaming up for the Earth-friendly “Flip Your Fridge” campaign, meant to motivate consumers to recycle old refrigerators...
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LG Expands Berkus-Inspired Studio Line
There are a number of new additions to the LG Studio line of premium kitchen appliances, inspired by interior designer and TV personality Nate...
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White Goods Get A Black Eye From ‘Friday’ Sales
I was on a road trip this month, crossing off a bucket list item with three friends visiting the Augusta National Golf Club during...
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Energy Star Lauds Majap Makers & Merchants
April is a busy time for Energy Star, the 24-year-old conservation program from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which spotlights resource-efficient products and...
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Lost In Transition: GE Filling 85 Corporate Jobs
In preparation for its purchase by Haier Group, GE Appliances is replacing 85 support positions presently provided by corporate parent General Electric. The roles range...
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Core Categories Up 12% In February: AHAM
Factory shipments of the six major white-goods categories rose 11.7 percent in February, to about 3.1 million units, according to the Association of Home...
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Architectural Digest Show Brings Out The Best In Luxury Majaps
Dealers, decorators, interior designers and trendsetters of all stripes descended on the Architectural Digest Design Show (ADDS) in New York last month, in search...
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WTO Backs Korea In U.S. Washer Dispute
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is taking the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to task for imposing stiff import duties on Korean-made washers three...
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Sears, Nationwide Receive Top Energy Star Honors
Sears and the Nationwide Marketing Group have been Energy Star partners since the 1990s and this year will be no different. The U.S. Environmental...
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Architectural Digest Show Brings Out The Best In Luxury Appliances
Dealers, decorators and interior designers are descending on the Architectural Digest Design Show in New York today, in search of the finest in fabrics,...