Recent news and news from Chicago:

Who has not been pining for the return of the Caloric brand to the American appliance scene?  Who of you have not lived lives of quiet desperation since Caloric was terminated?  These was
(Apr 23 2012 - 10:01pm) | Add Comment (0)

Viking is recalling all 2000+ dishwashers built between May 26, 2010 and September 15, 2010, for problems associated with shorts and fires.  There have been 21 fires, and 5 which resulting in
(Apr 11 2012 - 7:38pm) | Add Comment (10)

A new job in Texas!!!  Yippee!!
Go to Jobs area, and read all about it.

Windcrest departs Pinnacle for O'Rourke Distribution in the way down southern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee.  O'Rourke is the distributio
(Apr 4 2012 - 7:19pm) | Add Comment (3)

Parental Guidance Suggested:

ALMO takes over distribution of ASKO products from Riggs Distribution in Northern California, Northern Nevada and Hawaii.
(Apr 4 2012 - 7:13am) | Add Comment (3)

Viking Southeast Distributor Hadco has signed a Letter of Intent for the aquisition of Delia, Viking's New England Distributor.

(Mar 27 2012 - 10:31pm) | Add Comment (2)

BKE Distribution has sold the Vintage BBQ line to Northeast (and midwest) distributor Signature Marketing effective January 2012.  Signature claims that Vintage nearly matches the Alfresco lin
(Mar 17 2012 - 2:39pm) | Add Comment (19)

Blue Star has launched the Prizer Hood line (Prizerhoods.com) and website using the same products and product photographs still to be found on the Independent Hood website (Kitchenhoods.com).
(Mar 13 2012 - 11:11pm) | Add Comment (7)

Basil Larkin resigned from his position at Viking as VP of Sales and National Sales Manager, effective February 2012, confirming the hot tip from Appliancecarguy in the Forums section.
(Mar 11 2012 - 10:55am) | Add Comment (2)

Italy based Terim, maker of Fratelli Onofri brand appliances, which are widely distributed in North America, has shut down its 2 Italian factories and layed off 400 employees.  Other sources i
(Mar 3 2012 - 1:36pm) | Add Comment (0)

Lawyers are now sitting by their phones trawling for consumers to join in a Class Action against a myriad of appliance manufacturers who have "allegedly" marked their appliances as Energy
(Feb 18 2012 - 9:25pm) | Add Comment (24)

These are not major appliances.  These are counter-top appliances, but they have punched above their weight class, in this the largest appliance recall in our memory. 
(Feb 9 2012 - 10:21pm) | Add Comment (1)

ApplianceAdvisor.com has been the victim of comment spammers, who integrate internet hyperlinks inside comments upon the news.  Recently we have noticed several comments linked to the hhg
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