Appliances

Eureka Forbes to buy majority stake in Swiss marketer Lux

16 May 2013

UK sees six-fold increase in the counterfeit electrical goods seized

30 Mar 2013

Dutch coffee maker D E Master Blenders in takeover talks with Joh A Benckiser

30 Mar 2013

China produces most home appliances

03 Oct 2012

China’s Haier Group offers to buy rest of Fisher and Paykel Appliances for $710.36 mn

12 Sep 2012

South Korea's Woongjin Holdings to sell stake in Woongjin Coway for $965 mn

16 Aug 2012

KKR to buy German cutlery, coffee machines maker WMF for $727 mn

09 Jul 2012

US hits Daewoo, Samsung and LG washing machines with retaliatory duties

01 Jun 2012

Despite UK recession, white goods pull in nearly 1 mn pre-Christmas online searches

19 Jan 2012

Havells expands into China through joint venture with Shanghai Yaming

26 Dec 2011

Havells, through its Sylvania subsidiary, manages a global lighting business across more than 40 countries with some of the prestigious global brands like Sylvania, Concord, and Luminance

Westinghouse launches home appliances in Indian market

11 Nov 2011

Whirlpool to cut 5,000 jobs, close Arkansas plant

28 Oct 2011

Whirlpool Corp, the world's largest appliance maker, plans to cut 10 per cent of its workforce in North America and Europe, and close its plant in Arkansas due to lower demand and higher costs for materials

TTK Prestige to acquire ailing Indian unit of Italy's Bialetti

10 Oct 2011

Bosch Siemens Home Appliances to set up base in India, expand business

21 Sep 2011

Bosch Siemens says its products will be placed in the mass premium segment of the market, so as to derive the benefits of both the mass market and demand for product quality.

Investcorp acquires US specialty cookware retailer Sur La Table

20 Sep 2011

Bosch, Siemens to set up Rs479 crore manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu

03 Sep 2011

German home appliances major BSH Bosch, jointly with Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, plans to invest Rs479.27 crore to manufacture home appliances.

Haier to buy home appliance units of Sanyo Electric

28 Jul 2011

Philips acquires Povos Electric Appliance to expand in China

11 Jul 2011

Electrolux to buy Egypt’s Olympic Group for $410 million

11 Jul 2011

Google to make `smart' household appliances

11 May 2011

Codenamed `Project Tungsten' the Google initiative aims at integrating household appliances with wireless technology, so that you can order your fridge to switch on or off, ask the dishwasher to keep the dishes cleaned, and so on.

Morphy Richards launches InstaCook

23 Feb 2011

‘Preethi’ becomes part of Philips after Maya buyout

25 Jan 2011

Samsung commissions $75 million refrigerator plant near Chennai

27 Nov 2010

Electrolux buys controlling stake in Egypt’s Olympic Group for $246 million

11 Oct 2010

Panasonic launches 65B2 washing machine

14 Sep 2010