Four months after Samsung Electronics Home Appliances’ first and only U.S. plant went back online following repeated COVID-related shutdowns, the company is reporting enhanced on-site safety protocols and a renewed diligence to keep employees, their families and the local community safe.
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LG Electronics has appointed Steven Scarbrough senior VP/general manager of Air Conditioning Technologies, with responsibility for leading LG’s commercial, residential and applied air conditioning businesses in the U.S.
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Union workers rejected a tentative contract with GE Appliances last week that had been endorsed by the leadership of IUE-CWA Local 83761 for addressing wages, work practices and work-life balance issues.
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With consumers preparing more of their meals at home during the pandemic, air fryers (a.k.a. countertop convection ovens) have assumed a new mass appeal.
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LG Electronics has created an online store that consumers can shop directly for appliance replacement parts like water filters, air filters, oven racks and refrigerator bins.
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For the past six years Whirlpool, through its Care Counts laundry pair donation program, has been working with schools to remove a sad barrier to learning: a lack of clean clothing.
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JCPenney has been spared from liquidation by two mall owners who have agreed to buy the bankrupt department store chain for $1.75 billion.
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Whirlpool has created the new position of Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations and has appointed a longtime Coca-Cola executive to fill it.
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LG Electronics has debuted a new culinary content series on YouTube in support of its ultra-premium Signature Kitchen Suite line.
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The U.S. Census Bureau has confirmed what BrandSource members already knew: Appliance and electronics stores were rockin’ in July.
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CE and white-goods industry veteran John Iacoviello is retiring from BSH Home Appliances, and will be succeeded as Senior Vice President of Sales by Christopher Kaeser.
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LG Electronics’ first and only U.S. appliance plant has spit out its 1 millionth washer after just 14 months of operation.
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In Famous Tate’s latest employee newsletter, General Manager Claude Ward provides a state-of-the-industry update and company status report that can benefit all BrandSource members. YSN has posted it below with Claude’s permission.
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The retirement in June of longtime vendor friend and partner Mark Hecht of Whirlpool has created a new opportunity for another BrandSource booster and former AVB merchant.
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As Congress still wrangles over the next stimulus package and COVID flares up in new parts of the country, economists, executives and independent owners are expressing their concern for the well-being of small businesses.
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The United Appliance Servicers Association (UASA), the non-profit appliance repair trade group and BrandSource partner, has added a host of online events to its August calendar.
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The spread of COVID-19 has done more than put a crimp in vendors’ second-quarter earnings.
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There’s a new/old appliance kid in town whose latest product entries could help ease the inventory crunch.
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Serta Simmons Bedding has partnered with Swiss textile chemistry firm HeiQ to create a mattress that can reportedly kill the COVID-19 virus.
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The U.S. moved closer to a national mask mandate this week as some of the country’s largest retailers including Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Kroger, Kohl’s, CVS and Walgreens joined three more states — Alabama, Colorado and Montana — in making face coverings a must indoors.
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