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World Trade Organization 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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Appliance Briefs
Sears’ major appliance suppliers are standing fast with the ailing chain, even as its losses continue to mount. In a rare commentary that accompanied...
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Consumers Are Almost Ready For The Smart Home. Are You?
The stats are impressive: Smart-home tech has already invaded 21 percent of all U.S. homes, and another 36 percent are considered viable customers. So...
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DIY Security’s Future Looking Secure At Retail
The DIY security-camera business is looking pretty secure for retailers. U.S. factory-level sales of DIY cameras sold by retailers are expected to grow at...
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BrandSource ‘Just Getting Started’
“We are just getting started,” BrandSource CEO Jim Ristow told the buying group’s electronics and appliance dealers late last month in a speech that...
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Sharp No. 1 Online In Microwaves
When it comes to online sales of microwave ovens, Sharp is best positioned to succeed in what is becoming an increasingly important channel for...
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Bob Baird, Home Depot Major Appliance Chief, Stepping Down
Bob Baird, who helped make The Home Depot a destination for major appliances, is leaving the chain after 15 years. The merchandising VP will...
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AHAM Sees ‘Limitless Potential’ In Home Appliance Connectivity
A new white paper by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) suggests that the white-goods industry is poised for a paradigm shift as...
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Small Appliances Smarten Up
It’s not just majaps that are ushering smart connectivity into the kitchen — consumers are now able to use their smartphones and tablets to...
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Justice Dept. Greenlights GE-Haier Deal
Haier’s proposed $5.4 billion purchase of GE’s appliance business has passed a major hurdle, having received a thumb’s up from the U.S. Department of...
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Sharp Heating Up Online Microwave Market: Report
When it comes to online sales of microwave ovens, Sharp is best positioned to succeed in what is becoming an increasingly important channel for...
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GE Pursued By Multiple Bidders: Blankenship
More than five majap manufacturers and over 30 private-equity firms were prepared to pursue GE Appliances after last year’s planned purchase by Electrolux fell...
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Electrolux Taps Alan Shaw To Head North American Division
Electrolux North America has a new, permanent chief executive in longtime industry veteran Alan Shaw. He fills a role left vacant by the departure...
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2015: It Was A Very Good Year
JCPenney’s re-entry into major appliances underscores what other long-betting retailers have expected: After several fallow years following the housing market implosion, appliances are a...
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Majap Makers, Merchants Converge For KBIS, IBS
Appliance retailers and vendors that didn’t get their fill of Sin City during CES 2016 got another go at it last week when the...
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Electrolux’s Keith McLoughlin Is Stepping Down This Week
Keith McLoughlin, who has led Electrolux as president/CEO since 2010, will retire at the end of the week following months of speculation and denials....
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GE Finds New Home With Haier: Analysis
The eight-year-long GE Appliance saga appears to have come to a close with the signing of a $5.6 billion purchase agreement by Haier Group....
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CES 2016: Here Comes The GoSun Grill
GoSun Stove at CES with its Innovation Awards Honoree GoSun Grill. This solar-powered solution can cook almost anything including, eggs, vegetables, fish, chicken, meats...
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CES 2016: Drink Up With Bartesian’s Home Cocktail Machine
After completing a successful Kickstarter campaign, Bartesian (exhibiting with HAX/SOSventures) is set to release what the company believes to be the world’s first cocktail...
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Innovation Infuses Majap Intros At 2016 CES
The era of big, white, dumb boxes is long over in the appliance business, having been pushed aside by color, creativity and connectivity, as...
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Samsung Smart Fridge Harmonizes With Amazon Echo’s Alexa
Answering the question of “What is the coolest thing at CES,” Samsung is certainly a top contender with its Family Hub refrigerator, arguably the...
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LG Signature Series Targets Luxury Appliance Market
LG Electronics on Tuesday unveiled at CES 2016 an ultra-premium Signature series of major appliances and OLED TVs aimed squarely at the luxury niche...
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Haier Hails Star Wars With R2-D2 Fridge
The Force will be with Haier America at CES next month when the company unveils a startlingly realistic R2-D2 compact fridge. The 1/1 scale...
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LG Preps LG Signature Line Of Premium TVs, Appliances
LG Electronics will go to next month’s CES with its first Signature line of premium home entertainment and appliance products. The line is positioned...
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2015: The Year In White Goods
All in all, the appliance industry fared well in 2015 as consumer and housing demand drove solid if not stellar sales. To help foment...
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Whirlpool Charges Samsung, LG With Predatory Pricing
Says Koreans avoided penalities by moving production to China Whirlpool has filed an antidumping petition with the U.S. Commerce Department and the U.S. International...
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LG Appliances Attain New Heights. Literally.
The sky was the limit for LG Electronics last night, when it showcased its new family of black stainless steel kitchen appliances on the...
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Middleby Buys Lynx Grills
The Middleby Corp., a maker of commercial and residential kitchen appliances, has acquired Lynx Grills, the premium outdoor cooking vendor. No sale price was...
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It’s Official: GE-Electrolux Deal Is Dead
Electrolux paid GE a $175 million termination fee yesterday, formally ending its planned acquisition of the conglomerate’s appliance business. The break-up fee was a...
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GE Calls Off Electrolux Acquisition
GE Appliances has called it quits on its planned acquisition by Electrolux amid staunch buyout blowback from federal regulators. In a terse statement this...
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LG, Samsung Tops In Online Performance Of French-Door Refrigerator Brands
BrandView rates effectiveness of online sales efforts across common retailers The online shopping experience can be hampered by numerous factors: products not returning in...
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Electrolux/GE Update: Decision Expected By January
Electrolux, which is battling the Justice Department in court for the OK to acquire GE’s appliance business, expects a ruling as early as next...
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Hydroponic Garden Cops Top Prize In Electrolux Design Contest
First prize in Electrolux’s annual Design Lab student competition went to “Bloom,” a mini-hydroponic garden created by Jordan Lee Martin of the United Kingdom....
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Electrolux/GE Merger Hits Snag As 2 Sides Meet In Court
Electrolux’s proposed $3.3 billion acquisition of GE’s appliance business faces a critical roadblock, with the Department of Justice (DOJ) digging its antitrust heels in...
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T’is The Season: Retailers Break Their Black Friday Promos
Two of the biggest names in major appliance retailing — Sears and The Home Depot — are preparing a gangbuster cluster of doorbuster sales...
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Electrolux/GE Merger Hits Major Snag: Reports
Electrolux’s proposed $3.3 billion acquisition of GE’s appliance business may be facing a critical roadblock as the Department of Justice (DOJ) digs its antitrust...
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Haier Hailed By ‘This Old House’
Haier America’s new Serenity room air platform has been lauded by the folks at This Old House magazine. Specifically, the super-silent AC series edged...
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WOULD YOU HAVE THAT IN A SIZE 8?
At press time, LG Electronics was busy preparing for its Nov. 3 Broadway debut. That’s when Emmy Award-winning choreographer Josh Bergasse will present professional...
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Sept. Majap Shipments Up 6%: AHAM
The majap industry’s September song was music to manufacturers’ ears. That’s because factory shipments of white-goods rose a respectable 5.9 percent year-over-year to 6.8...
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Whirlpool, Electrolux Enjoy Solid Third-Quarter Results
Acquisitions and a strong performance in North America respectively helped Whirlpool and Electrolux post solid numbers in the third quarter. Boosted by last year’s...
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Samsung Adds Black Stainless Finish To Kitchen Platform
Black is most definitely back in the kitchen. The latest adherent: Samsung Electronics America (SEA), which, just in time for the holidays, has introduced...
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Forget Wait-And-See; The Smart Kitchen Has Already Arrived
I’ve read numerous articles recently suggesting that consumers aren’t rushing to embrace the technology of the connected kitchen, and that many manufacturers have adopted...