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Last week, the National Institute of Economic Research released a forecast that sharply lowered expectations for the Swedish economy. Inflation, which is the highest in 30 years, is expected to rise further, while households' purchasing power is expected to decrease and interest rates are expected to take a significant step upwards. Not the best conditions for a successful summer for industry goods, right? But if you listen to HUI's and […]

The industry is still developing better than the comparison year 2020, but compared to the previous pandemic year 2021, the industry is now losing ground. In terms of value, combined white goods (MDA) and household appliances (SDA) are down 3.8 percent after the first five months of the year compared to the same period last year. The entire consumer goods trade is declining The Trade Council within HUI presented today how the first quarter has progressed for […]

What can we expect from the summer besides sun and sand between our toes? Chairman Kent Oderud has looked at the summer sales figures for 2021. We know that July is a strong retail month for appliances and electronics with a monthly index of 8 percent (2021) of annual sales. Customers are there to a large extent to update […]

It is becoming very clear that the industry development will not be able to reach the previous year's record figures this year. However, compared to 2020, the figures up to April still look positive.

This week, Statistics Sweden presented the number of housing starts in Sweden during the first quarter. The report shows that new production of a total of approximately 14,100 new residential apartments began during the first quarter of 2022.

Statistics Sweden announced in its annual report that the housing stock as of December 31, 2021 in Sweden was now close to passing 5.1 million homes - the number of residential apartments in the various housing types amounted to 5,096,007 homes.

APPLiAnytt can now present the final market figures in both value and volume for the total market for white goods and household appliances in 2021 in Sweden.

APPLiAnytt presents the industry's quarterly figures here. It turns out that even though the comparison to 2021 is slightly negative, the industry's sales are stabilizing at a high post-pandemic level.

APPLiAnytt presents industry developments in February: The industry as a whole maintains last year's record figures in February, but there are major differences between larger white goods (which are increasing) and smaller household appliances, which are declining.

In 2021, a new month is emerging as the best sales month. Not entirely surprisingly, it is November that both the supplier and retailer levels have had the strongest sales. November has taken over as the month of the year where supplier companies (sell-in) and the retailer level (sell-out) prove to be the absolute strongest for both distribution levels in 2021. The Trade Council HUI Research, which […]

Now comes the third and final part of our series where we present some of the industry's most important product trends and this time focus on the segments of the home's most central helpers - STOVE, OVEN, HOB and FAN.

According to figures from January's sales, APPLiAnytt can conclude that 2022 is off to a slightly positive start! Advanced coffee and espresso machines are particularly visible in SDA sales along with a more expensive segment of vacuum cleaners.