UK Whitegoods Newsletter 190911

UK whitegoods Newsletter 190911

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Pixmania Future In Doubt

Reuters reports that Dixons said on Thursday it would like to sell its loss-making Pixmania online business and if that proved to be not possible closure of the operation was to be considered.

Indesit Plans Small Appliances

While Indesit Company profit and revenues have fallen the appliance manufacturer has indicated that it may seek to enter into the small appliance market with, we presume, kettles, coffee machines, food mixers and so on in a report from Appliance Magazine this week.

Hotpoint And Indesit Washing Machines Recalled

Indesit have issued a recall on some of its Indesit and Hotpoint washing machine models that were featured on last week's BBC Watchdog program for the risk of "exploding".

Stinking Washing Machines On NBC

Smelly washing machines continue to cause problems in the US with fresh lawsuits being launched seemingly every few months but it is a far less common problem in Europe where front loading washing machines have been in use for some decades. More in the video report.

Oreck Files For Bankruptcy

US based vacuum cleaner manufacturer Oreck has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week leaving the future of the long standing cleaner maker in doubt as the original family owners attempt to buy back the business.

Dear here is the latest news from the site and industry at large.

The big news this week of course is that we are relaunching the old repairs@ service properly, developed from the ground up for the new site platform.

This should be live very soon and we'll publish news about it as soon as it's live and ready but, it's coming very soon.

You can find out more by watching this thread in the forums.

And now, to view the forums, you can even do it using a mobile application called Tapatalk which is, brilliant! Find out more in this article and still more on this thread in the forums.

Other News

You may have missed some of these stories over the past few weeks as we haven't sent a newsletter out for some time.

Dixons Group Scraps Investment Plans

Another Candy Washer Blows Up...

...and another one

Another Beko Fridge Fire

Vestel Buys The Servis Brand Name

Electrolux becomes the largest South American appliance maker

Dixons Merger With Carphone Warehouse?

Beko Expand To Australia

Forum Threads Of Note

These are the threads in the forums that, if you read nothing else, we think you should read if you're in the trade.

Google Maps

How to get your business listed on Google Maps, properly and get the most out it. Some prove, you can get a lot out of it!

eSpares Bought By Connect

This caused a few eyebrows to be raised. As did the fact that the OFT sat up, paid attention and started asking questions!

0800 Repair

Yes we know it's sprawled over more than 40 pages and, yes we know some of it is bordering on ugly and, yes we also thought everyone would get bored of it and go home. They didn't and, in some ways this has become one of the best threads ever. Even if it is like reading war and peace at times, with more war than peace.

BSH Espares Shop Closing

BSH shut up shop, engineers get annoyed. (More annoyed)

Servis

General conversatoin about Servis and the brand being bought by Vestel.

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