Appliances

The House Appropriations Committee has added a provision to the economic stimulus package that earmarks $300 million for Energy Star rebates. The provision provides...

Less than two weeks after International CES, industry attention returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center last week for the 2009 International Builders’ Show...

BSH North America has recalled 476,500 dishwashers that were manufactured between 1995 and 2005 due to a potential fire hazard. The voluntary recall, which...

Consumers are less interested in “automated” homes than having the appliances and electronic devices within their residences communicate and interact with one another. That’s...

Whirlpool has selected Assurant to market, administer and underwrite its extended-service plans in the United States and Canada. Kevin Roney, Whirlpool’s financial planning and...

More than half of consumers currently use Energy Star-rated major appliances, a new report by The NPD Group revealed, and another 16 percent plan...

Good things come in small packages for the folks at Haier America and Fisher & Paykel (F&P). That includes, for the former, a new...

For most, 2008 will be a year best forgotten, and no less so for the major appliances industry. Indeed, one could argue that the...

Unit factory shipments of major appliances fell 13.7 percent in October, as the weak economy and distressed housing market continued to take their toll...

Samsung Electronics America has begun shipping the RFG299 three-door refrigerator, the company’s latest addition to its expanding kitchen suite. The RFG299 features a 7-inch...

The United Servicers Association (USA), the independent appliance repair trade group, will hold its annual Service and Retail Convention (SRC09) in conjunction with the...

Liebherr, the German refrigerator and freezer manufacturer, has opened a new research and development center at its 44-year-old facility, here. The new lab will...

Haier, China’s largest major appliance maker, has decided to wait for solid signs of an economic recovery in the United States before making a...

Dacor has begun shipping its 30-inch, high Btu-output Epicure gas range. The commercial-look, stainless-steel unit provides homeowners limited to gas heat with a powerful,...

An Austrian design student’s concept for a modular refrigerator copped top honors in Electrolux’s sixth annual Design Lab competition. Stefan Buchberger’s “Flatshare, an appliance...

More than half of major appliance dealers doubt that sales will improve in the coming months, a recent survey shows. According to a query...

Samsung’s French door and side-by-side refrigerators ranked highest in a new study of kitchen appliance customer satisfaction from market research firm J.D. Power and...

LAS VEGAS — Brand Source sees light at the end of the white-goods tunnel. John White, major appliance VP for the $11 billion buying...

WASHINGTON —Factory shipments of major appliances continued their negative run in August. According to the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM), unit shipments fell...

NIAGRA FALLS, N.Y. —Whirlpool was the most advertised majap brand in the laundry and kitchen categories in July. According to IFR Monitoring, a market...

BSH Home Appliances has reorganized its corporate structure along product-category lines. The premium white-goods manufacturer has created four senior VP posts to manage its...

LG Electronics has retained its lead as the No. 1 brand in front-load laundry. John Herrington, president of the company’s digital home appliance division,...

Whirlpool’s second-quarter earnings fell 27 percent to $117 million amid a backdrop of rising oil and materials costs and a weak U.S. market. Still,...

Fagor America, the U.S. subsidiary of Spain’s Fagor Electrodomesticos, has added two new models to its convection oven line. Its 24-inch side-opening oven provides...

Broan-NuTone, makers of Best brand range hoods and ventilation fans, based here, recently held a series of “All Star” product training camps in Denver,...

GE may be trying to shed its major appliance division, but the brand remains a leading white-goods presence on dealer floors. According to IFR...

Whirlpool is repositioning its venerable Amana brand under the banner of “affordable luxury.” According to brand manager Brandon Buckingham, consumer studies and marketplace analysis...

Haier America is hitting the highways this summer with a U.S. road tour highlighting its counter-depth, four-door refrigerators. The traveling “Refrigeration Roadshow” will visit...

Factory sales of major appliances went from bad to worse in April as the housing market meltdown continued to take a toll on the...

Jeff Immelt, General Electric’s CEO, confirmed that along with LG Electronics, several other foreign companies are contenders to buy GE Appliances. During press conferences...

The major appliance business continued its freefall in March, with factory shipments tumbling 7.8 percent to 8.2 million units, down from 8.9 million units...

Samsung Electronics is adding an extra-large-capacity French door refrigerator and steam washer to its white-goods line. The products were showcased here last month at...

Rising oil and raw material costs plus an anemic U.S. majap market negatively impacted Whirlpool’s first-quarter profits. Earnings from continuing operations fell 24 percent...

“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” was the seeming subtext at the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show here (K/BIS), where majap vendors launched a wide array...