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Roku Now Offers 5 Streaming Devices, Topping Out At $99.99
Roku is refreshing its hardware lineup and updating its operating system in order to better address the burgeoning — and wide-ranging — cord-cutter market....
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Samsung Teams With ADT For DIY Home Security Starter Kit
Samsung is partnering with ADT for a line of a DIY home-security solutions employing Samsung’s SmartThings platform. Two products will become available on Oct....
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Washer Import Case Brought Out The Big Guns In Washington
Some of the biggest names in the appliance industry converged on Washington this month as Whirlpool’s anti-dumping crusade against Samsung and LG came to...
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Pirch Slips From Its Perch
Pirch, the ultra-premium kitchen, bath and appliance chain, is retrenching after nearly a decade of aggressive growth. The business, widely lauded for its 10...
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Washer Import Case Brings Out The Big Guns In Washington
Updated! Some of the biggest names in the appliance industry converged on Washington yesterday as Whirlpool’s anti-dumping crusade against Samsung and LG came to...
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Get Smart: Bosch, Sharp Forge New Kitchen Connections
As the appliance industry revs up for home automation dominance, two leading lights in kitchen majaps have brought in app partners to help get...
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LG Breaks Ground On First U.S. Appliance Plant
LG Electronics took a ceremonial step closer to domestic manufacturing yesterday when dignitaries including U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross and Tennessee Sen. Bob...
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Haier’s Kevin Dexter To Run Fisher & Paykel, Monogram Brands
Appliance industry veteran Kevin Dexter, who helped make Samsung a force in the U.S. appliance market, has been handed the keys to Haier/GE Appliance’s...
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Major Appliances To Lead Smart-Home Market By 2021: IHS
Following a false start with energy-aware smart-grid appliances, the white-goods industry is now on track to dominate the connected-home market in four years. That’s...
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Sears Stepping Up Its Kenmore Rollout To Amazon
Sears’ launch of Kenmore-brand appliances on Amazon is picking up speed. Four weeks after it began offering a limited assortment of private-label majaps to...
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Russound Moves Into The Backyard
Russound is shipping its first landscape speakers meant for use in outdoor audio environments. The new 70-volt/100-volt/8-ohm AW4-LS-BR speaker, with a suggested retail of...
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Bluetooth Mesh’s Debut Welcomed
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) new Bluetooth LE spec now supports mesh networking, making the wireless technology an option for largescale device networks....
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LG Unleashed From The Dog Days Of Summer
It’s been a busy summer for LG Electronics USA, which in quick succession introduced an innovative new dishwasher, released a new trio of robotic...
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5 Selling Points to Get Customers to Adopt Smart Home (The Easy Way)
Smart home technology is becoming increasingly mainstream, but there remains a significant segment of consumers who are still on the fence about whether they...
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Danby Appliances Entering Cannabis Biz
Danby Appliances is developing a new product line that is giving added meaning to “joint venture.” The Canadian majap maker is teaming up with...
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LG’s QuadWash Will Bring NYC Its 1st Waterpark At Citi Summer Streets
LG Electronics USA does things in a big way. Case in point: the company’s new QuadWash dishwasher platform, which doubles up on the category’s...
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LG Tops In Customer Satisfaction In Kitchen & Laundry: J.D. Power
LG ranks highest in customer satisfaction in seven of 11 kitchen and laundry appliance segments measured by J.D. Power. The “J.D. Power 2017 Kitchen...
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June Appliance Shipments Up 14%: AHAM
Appliance dealers loaded up on inventory last month in advance of the key July 4th holiday shopping period. According to the latest vendor data...
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Majap Giants Court Builders
The builder channel is becoming an increasingly important adjunct for appliance retailers — and a mainstay of majap manufacturers. To underscore the point, the...
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Sears Goes To The Mattresses
Sears has opened a new-format specialty store devoted to appliances and mattresses. The freestanding showroom, located in the border town of Pharr, Texas, builds...
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Samsung, Whirlpool Bring New Kitchen Collections To Pacific Coast Builders Conference
With the builder channel becoming an increasingly important adjunct for appliance retailers — and a mainstay of majap manufacturers — the Pacific Coast Builders...
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Smeg USA Shows Its True Colors For Independence Day
It’s still not too late for appliance dealers and their customers to celebrate Independence Day in style. Kitchen majap manufacturer Smeg USA has waved...
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Sharp Butters Up Microwave Market With Orville Redenbacher Popcorn Setting
Updated!Sharp Home Electronics Company of America (SHCA) has sharpened its merchandising with a trio of stainless-steel countertop microwave ovens that feature dedicated settings for...
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These Are The 10 Top-Performing Refrigerator Brands Online
Quick, think of the top 10 refrigerator brands. Now guess which ones lead the pack online. They may not necessarily be the same. To...
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3 Rather Large Peas In An Appliance Pod
For a relatively staid category like white goods, there’s been plenty of volatility on TWICE’s Top 50 Major Appliances Report. Indeed, it was only...
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Zephyr Turns 20
Happy birthday, Zephyr Ventilation. The premium range hood business, which melded fashion and functionality to help raise the category beyond its utilitarian roots, celebrates...
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Zephyr Ventilation Turns 20, And Is Still Turning Heads
Happy birthday, Zephyr Ventilation. The premium range hood business, which melded fashion and functionality to help raise the category beyond its utilitarian roots, celebrates...
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Bosch, Kenmore Join The Amazon Alexa Bandwagon
BSH’s Bosch brand will soon begin integrating select major appliances with Amazon’s voice-operated Alexa AI platform. The interoperability began with Bosch’s built-in coffee machine...
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3 Rather Large Peas In An Appliance Pod: Life Atop The TWICE Top 50
For a relatively staid category like white goods, there’s been plenty of volatility on TWICE’s Top 50 Major Appliances Report.
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Appliance Reliance Bearing Fruit For TWICE 2017 Top 50 Major Appliance Retailers
Despite Sears living on life support and hhgregg now shuttered, it’s actually a good time to be a major appliance retailer.
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LG Appliances Shine Under Scrutiny
Reliability metrics are up while Energy Star efforts redoubled May was a busy month for LG Electronics’s U.S. appliance contingent, which was cited (in...
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GE Leads Costco’s Deeper Dive Into Majaps
Costco has added the GE and GE Profile brands to its growing assortment of major appliances. The lines will join a roster of Top...
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Whirlpool Petitions Feds To Pursue Samsung And LG
Updated! No. 1 global majap maker Whirlpool is looking to limit its competitors’ ability to evade anti-dumping laws by shifting production from country to...
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New GE Commercials Connect With Alexa Under Updated Tagline
GE has begun touting its smart appliances’ Alexa connection in a pair of new TV spots that began airing last Sunday during ABC’s “Billboard Music...
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Whirlpool, LG Join The Google Assistant Parade
Turns out two other Top Five major appliance manufacturers – Whirlpool and LG Electronics – have just joined GE in hitching their smart appliances...
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GE Adds Google Assistant To Smart Appliance Line
After entering the voice-control waters last fall by pairing up with Amazon Alexa, GE Appliances has now integrated its line of connected appliances with...
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Samsung Ships FlexWash + FlexDry 2-In-1 Laundry Pairs
Samsung has begun shipping the two-washers-in-one FlexWash and two-dryers-in-one FlexDry laundry pair, first previewed at CES in January. Designed to provide laundry flexibility for...
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Whirlpool To Acquire Yummly
Bolstering its commitment to the smart home, Whirlpool will acquire Yummly, an app and website that provides personalized recipes and cooking resources. Yummly, which...
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Emerson Quiet Kool Returns With New Home-Comfort Line
The venerable Emerson Quiet Kool line has returned to the U.S. home-comfort market under new ownership and with a revamped product line. The brand,...
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The Connected Kitchen
Bosch Home Connect Built-In Coffee Maker This caffeine wizard enables consumers to use their smartphones or tablets to remotely brew coffee with the push...
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The Home Appliance Renaissance
Remember when the kitchen was for cooking and we entertained family and friends in the living room and dining room? Well, not anymore. Market...
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Majaps’ Mixed Messages
A pair of key industry reports issued last month proffered divergent snapshots of the state of the appliance industry as it headed into spring...