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Deliveries of industry goods to retailers and users during the holiday month of July were clearly lower than in the previous two years (see graph). We have to go back to before 2019 to find an equally weak month in terms of value. If we also take into account the development in fixed prices (= volume), we have to go even further back in time for […]

Cleaning your clothes or your plates and cutlery with a modern washing machine or dishwasher usually takes somewhere between three and a half to four hours. If you use the Eco program. If you want to finish faster, you can use an alternative program, but then both energy use and water consumption increase significantly. Since the new energy label was introduced […]

When it comes to white goods at IFA this year, a lot of focus was placed on energy efficiency and sustainability, as well as user experience and artificial intelligence. Several products were premiered at the fair, and here are some examples from Samsung, BSH, Electrolux and Miele. Samsung That energy efficiency is an important focus area will probably have been missed, and at IFA 2023 we were able to […]

White goods manufacturers are continuously developing their products to become more energy efficient, and in several product categories they now easily meet the requirements for the best energy label, energy class A, even though it has only been a little over two years since the new energy label was introduced. The energy label on refrigerators, freezers, washing machines and dishwashers has been in place since the middle of […]

 AtEase is the name of Electrolux’s new subscription-based product service, which is part of the company’s efforts to reduce electronic waste and contribute to the circular economy. The service allows consumers to subscribe to a refurbished or new product. Electrolux states that AtEase is an all-inclusive service that covers everything needed to […]

In 2019 we changed our name from EHL (Electrical Appliance Suppliers) to APPLiA, which is an abbreviation of the English word “appliances”. The reason was that we wanted to share the same name as our European organization and the majority of the national counterparts in Europe in order to gain a greater audience and impact for our business. Our service company EHL AB has, from administrative […]

A wine cooler integrated into a traditional fridge, a fridge-freezer with a 32-inch display and Matter, a fridge with inner walls made of 70 percent recycled plastic and a trio of energy-efficient models with energy class A – these are some of the recent innovations in the fridge-freezer segment. French doors and wine cooler Last year, Siemens launched a fridge-freezer […]

Do June's positive industry figures possibly indicate that the industry is about to turn around again? A strong value result (+15.8%) in the month significantly improves the industry's accumulated results for the first half of the year. In fact, June 2023 is the first month where the industry's total turnover beats the corresponding month in the previous year. Trends towards a turnaround […]

As a result of the deteriorating economic situation in Sweden, housing construction is now plummeting throughout the country – both in the metropolitan regions and in the rest of the country. The counties that have so far managed with the lowest reductions are Örebro, Norrbotten, Gävleborg and Halland. In the rest of the country, the reductions are more dramatic. First half-year decline of 57 percent […]

Construction companies' costs for materials are no longer keeping pace with inflation. For certain product groups, we are at price levels we have not seen since before the pandemic. This is shown by the latest report from Statistics Sweden of the Construction Cost Index for apartment buildings. The costs of building materials for Sweden's construction contractors are now falling significantly and ended up at just over 0.9 percent on an annual basis (July 2022-July 2023). The costs […]

In mid-August, IFA Management GmbH was able to announce that IFA 2023 is fully booked, every square meter of the 130,000 square meters of exhibition space is filled. 2,059 exhibitors, of which 70 percent are returning and 30 percent new, from 48 countries will be on site in the 26 exhibition halls from September 1-5. IFA made a comeback as […]

New statistics from APPLiA show that a turnaround may be underway in the industry. The same applies to retail in general. Turnover for retail measured in current prices increased by 6.2 percent compared to last year and the non-durable goods trade by 1.6 percent. The industry statistics for May are characterized by a certain degree of recovery. For the heavier white goods (MDA) […]