Appliances

Thanks in large measure to Best Buy, which has demonstrated a willingness to embrace alternative white goods brands, Asian majap powerhouses Haier, LG and...

The Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturers Association (VCMA) has broadened its membership requirements in an effort to expand its vendor ranks. Three significant changes are: Companies...

In a major major appliance coup, Korean brown and white goods manufacturer LG Electronics will begin supplying a collection of refrigerators, washers, dryers and...

Abt Electronics and the NATM Buying Group have parted ways, according to the retail organization’s president/executive director Bill Trawick. NATM decided to accept the...

Looking past this month’s sudden departure of Abt Electronics — its fourth dealer resignation since September — the NATM Buying Corp. extolled the solidarity...

For the major appliance industry, 2003 began with more of a whimper than a bang. According to the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM),...

Sales of full-size household vacuum cleaners increased 2.1 percent last year to 19.7 million units according to the Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturers Assn. (VCMA). Despite...

Electrolux has named Keith McCloughlin president of Electrolux Home Products (EHP) North America, the company’s U.S.-based major appliance unit. The appointment fills a void...

The weather outside may have been frightful, but inside McCormick Place, here, the site of last month’s International Housewares Show, majap makers were heating...

Despite a sharp mid-year drop-off in major appliance sales, factory shipments of white goods ended 2002 up a healthy 5.1 percent in unit volume...

Factory shipments of major appliances snapped a months-long slump in November by climbing 11.7 percent to some 5.3 million units. The rebound, reported by...

If change came fast and furious to the major appliance industry during the first half of 2002 (see TWICE, June 24, p. 36), the...

Factory shipments of white goods edged up a modest 2.1 percent in October, underscoring the soft market for majaps. According to the latest wholesale...

A new report from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) might help explain why the sales pace of value-priced appliances is lagging that of super-premium...

Maytag has formed the Maytag Specialty Group to target the luxury segment of residential kitchen appliances and to expand the company’s commercial foodservice business....

Having filled the kitchen with its refrigerators and ranges, the laundry room with its washers and dryers, the bedroom with its Personal Valet clothes...

Most Advertised Refrigerators And Their Prices September 2002

Thinking outside the white box, Sears and its manufacturer partners have developed two innovative new refrigeration platforms that will be introduced early next year....

The mid-year rally in white goods sales appears to have petered out. While year-to-date shipments of major appliance are still ahead 5.1 percent over...

Wal-Mart has further extended its white goods relationship with GE. The world’s largest retailer (and, for that matter, largest company), has begun to offer...

Market information provider The NPD Group has launched a fifth Web-based service, dubbed NPDHouseworld, which will provide subscribers with retail point-of-sale and consumer data...

Harman International merged its worldwide JBL and Infinity home-speaker operations into a single division in July to create a global product line for each...

D&M Holdings plans to acquire additional brands targeted to the custom-install and specialty A/V channels, said Merle Gilmore, D&M’s chairman and CEO. The company...

The nation’s capital was designated the country’s next “Digital TV Zone,” by the National Association of Broadcasters, but the program’s other founding partner —...

No. 2 majaps retailer Lowe’s Companies has embarked on an aggressive, $1 billion build-out in the hotly contested New York metro area market that...

Underscoring its focus on the custom home installation business, Tweeter Home Entertainment Group has opened the first of several planned in-store home vignettes within...

In an upward revision of earlier tabulations, the Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturers Association (VCMA) reported that industry sales of full-size household vacuum cleaners rose 4.4...

Best Buy launched its first annual “Art of the Appliance” charity fundraiser earlier this month with a little help from friends Billy Idol, Mario...

Factory shipments of major appliances fell in August, ending a yearlong run of consecutive monthly gains as the shaky economy finally caught up with...

The Asian white goods invasion gained momentum this month when Samsung and Korea’s LG Electronics announced the placement of major refrigeration programs with, respectively,...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Independent distributor Crosley Corp. has launched a new promotion to support its private label Crosley line of clothes dryers. Beginning this...

Bissell Homecare has inked a licensing agreement allowing it to use the Barbie doll name and likeness on a new version of its hot-selling...

DeSears Appliance and Home Entertainment plans to unveil its first 45,000-square-foot retail space here at the end of the month. The renovated store, formerly...

It may not go down as a record summer for room air conditioner sales, but thanks to a hot, sticky July, dealers, distributors and...

In the battle for majap market share, retailers point to the best-selling Frigidaire FRS26R4A side-by-side as an important weapon in their product arsenal. “No...

In sharp contrast with recent white goods history, when vendors and retailers were slashing prices to gain market share and volume, Maytag has set...

The Hoover Co. is introducing three bagless upright vacuums with entry-level price points. The three models — two Widepath Bagless models (U5347-900 and U5348-900)...

The National Kitchen & Bath Assoc. (NKBA) has pushed back the dates of the 2003 Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (K/BIS) from March 28-30...