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Appliances
GE Expanding Laundry, Dishwasher Production
Haier is investing $200 million in GE's Appliance Park factories.
Appliances
GE Drops Its Name From Café Major Appliance Line
Debuts new finishes geared toward mass-premium HGTV-loving consumers
Industry
GE Appliances Creates New Group To Tackle Smart Home
Shawn Stover will head efforts to further collaboration between product and IT units
Home Automation
GE-Backed FirstBuild Introduces Smart Baking Pans
Smart bakeware is now a thing. FirstBuild, a “global co-creation community” backed by Haier’s GE Appliances unit, is debuting a Precision Bakeware that notifies...
news
Ultra Short Throw Projectors Are Ready For Their Close-up
Projection TV has long been a part of the TV and video display world. Indeed, many of the first consumer TV sets were a...
news
Haier Adding TVs With Chromecast Built-In
Haier is dropping the Roku TV smart-TV platform and joining companies such as Vizio, Philips and Polaroid in adopting the Chromecast built-in platform for...
news
John Homlish Named President Of Haier’s New Standalone CE Biz
Industry veteran John Homlish has been tapped to head a newly-created CE unit for China’s Haier Group covering the U.S. and Canada. The new TV...
Industry
GE Appliances Names Rick Hasselbeck CMO
Rick Hasselbeck has left the beauty business to serve as chief marketing officer of GE Appliances. Formerly global franchise leader of Covergirl and general...
Appliances
Smart Majaps On The Cusp Of Consumer Acceptance
Smart appliances have been a long time a comin,’ but now that they’ve more or less arrived, consumers will still need a chance to...
news
No Soundbar Needed: Haier TVs Will Now Deliver Clearer Dialogue With DBX-TV
DBX-TV’s Total Technology sound-enhancement suite will now be included in several Haier TVs, DBX-TV announced. Total Technology is designed to provide “deep, captivating audio”...
Appliances
Haier Calling: GE’s Rob Posthauer Talks Post-Merger Plans
TWICE Exclusive! On June 6, General Electric handed off its iconic, 125-year-old appliance business to Chinese majap giant Qingdao Haier for $5.6 billion. Although the...
Appliances
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...
Industry
Haier Shows Small-Space Appliances In Cocoon9 Container Home At Dwell On Design
Even a tiny house needs appliances. Haier America demonstrated that tight living quarters don’t have to lack in functionality (or style) at Dwell on...
Appliances
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...
Appliances
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...
Appliances
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...
Appliances
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...
Blogs
Why The Haier-GE Marriage Matters
News of Haier Group’s intention to acquire GE’s appliance unit, in lieu of a prior deal with Electrolux, could have a profound effect on...
news
Haier Group Says No Changes At GE … For Now
Don’t expect major changes any time soon following Haier Group’s expected $5.4 billion acquisition of GE Appliances later this year. According to an internal...
Appliances
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....
Appliances
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...
Appliances
Q&A With Haier America’s Chief Exec Adrian Micu
Haier is probably the biggest appliance brand that U.S. consumers don’t know. And Adrian Micu is out to change that. For years the business...
Appliances
Haier Joins Plated, MasterCard On 9-City Tour
Haier America has hit the road for a nine-city product tour aboard an Airstream travel trailer to dramatically demonstrate its small-space Urban Kitchen Living...
Appliances
GE, Haier Expand U.S. Production
Majap powerhouses GE Appliance and Haier America are expanding their manufacturing footprints in Kentucky and South Carolina, respectively. For GE, plans call for a...
CES-2016
Haier Adds Its First Roku TVs
Wayne, N.J. – Haier America joined the list of companies incorporating the Roku TV operating system and Roku streaming services in select TVs. The...
Buying Groups
Haier Holding Court At Nationwide Show
Las Vegas – The Nationwide Marketing Group’s PrimeTime show, running here this week at The Venetian, is a coming-out party of sorts for Haier....
Appliances
Haier Launching ‘Urban Kitchen’ Appliance Line
Updated! Los Angeles – Haier America is introducing its Urban Kitchen Living platform of freestanding and built-in kitchen appliances here at the Dwell On...
CES-2016
Riley Succeeds Cain, Gupta Promoted At Haier
Wayne, N.J. — Haier America has promoted Paul Riley to sales and marketing senior VP. He succeeds Rian Cain, who has left the company....
CES-2016
Sharp Joins Roku TV Program
Saratoga, Calif. — Roku expanded its Roku TV program to include select Sharp TVs, which will soon join select models from TCL and Hisense....
CES-2016
Haier To Open New HQ On Monday
Wayne, N.J. — Haier America will formally open its new headquarters here on Monday. The event, to be attended by New Jersey Lt. Gov....
CES-2016
Almo Adds Haier A/V
Philadelphia — Haier America has selected Almo as the exclusive national distributor for its A/V-focused digital products group. The pact expands the companies’ major...
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