Author: Isabella Peanberg

The June figures for the industry's sell-in values in Sweden show an improvement compared to the same month last year. However, the accumulated values (YTD) during the first half of the year still do not reach the corresponding half of 2024. When we look back at the first half of the year, it is clear that the first three months remained close to the previous […]

What are the terms and rights that apply to consumers when purchasing white goods? Hear APPLiA's CEO Matts Spångberg in the P1 program Plånboken in the feature.

The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, which represents the business community in Sweden and brings together 60,000 companies and 48 industry and employer organizations, recently presented a proposal for a well-developed chemicals policy for Sweden. And we can read in the report that such a policy is needed. National strategies exist for other policy areas such as climate, life science, food. But for chemicals policy in Sweden, a […]

The market for white goods and household appliances is still showing no signs of recovery. The APPLiA market’s sell-in figures for May show a continued lag compared to the previous year. In terms of value, the accumulated value of sales during the first five months of the year is now 6.9 percent below last year’s figure. It seems as if a wet blanket is covering our market and its […]

Trade war and white goods – We find this headline in Danish-sounding language in our sister organization – APPLiA Denmark –”s latest newsletter, where the impact of the tariff war on the white goods market is commented on. Here is the article by APPLiA-Denmark’s director Henrik Egede, translated into Swedish: “The world economy seems to have had a major spin in some washing machine since the beginning of 2025! Now comes white goods, […]

Although the RUT deduction for white goods repairs was introduced in 2017 to promote sustainable consumption, new statistics from the Swedish Tax Agency show that only around 88,000 deductions were made in 2024, something SVT highlights. This is a small proportion compared to the approximately two million ROT and RUT deductions that are handled annually. According to Applia Sverige, the trade association for white goods manufacturers and importers, […]

The budding signs that the APPLiA market is recovering, which have been visible in recent months, suffered a real setback in April. In terms of value, the sell-in value for April landed down by a full 17 percent compared to the same month in 2024 and the value for the entire four-month period thus dropped to minus 7 percent. A really weak […]

Statistics Sweden's statistics on the completion of new housing in 2024 were recently released. The total addition of housing through new construction and renovation for 2024 amounted to 48,024 apartments according to Statistics Sweden measurements and this is a full 30 percent fewer than the year before. Single-family home production hardest hit The construction and completion of single-family homes is the housing sector that is declining the most […]

A new updated version of the report The Unsustainable Electronics Tax is now available. This year with Applia as one of the initiators, together with the Electronics Industry, Technology Companies, Computer Games Industry and TechSverige. The report shows how the electronics tax, which was introduced in 2017 to phase out certain flame retardants, has in practice had the opposite effect. Instead of benefiting the environment, it drives up prices, makes recycling more difficult […]

The number of residential apartments in Sweden at the turn of the year 2024/2025 amounted to 5,260,876. These are divided into 2,136,854 apartments in single-family houses, 2,756,647 apartments in apartment buildings, 289,047 in special housing (e.g. retirement homes, student housing) and 78,328 in other buildings. In addition to this, there are approximately 612,000 second homes. Types of housing in Sweden Source: Statistics Sweden and Umeå University Rental rights dominate in the country's municipalities In apartment buildings, rental rights […]

The industry's sell-in figures for the first quarter of this year show some recovery for larger white goods, while smaller household appliances are still well behind the corresponding period last year. The industry as a whole does not reach last year With a loss of minus 3.6 percent for the first three months of the year, the first quarter for the overall […]

The market for white goods and household appliances continues to be challenging. The latest market figures from Appstat show that hopes for an improved market development for white goods and household appliances have not yet been fulfilled. However, HUI's forecast for the industry's full year 2025 is positive. Loss now, but positive forecast In terms of value, the overall industry is losing 4.7 percent of the sell-in value compared to the comparable period […]