Retailers such as Circuit City and Best Buy were slammed by a 27% drop in sales of appliances and consumer electronics during the last holiday season.
It rents and sells residential and office furniture, consumer electronics and home appliances.
The Hometown stores, which focus on small communities in 50 states, sell home appliances, consumer electronics, lawn and garden equipment, and hardware, plus Puerto Rico and Guam.
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Haier is a Chinese multinational consumer electronics and home appliances company headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong, China.
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Conn's jumped 2.56, or 16%, to 19.05, after the regional consumer-electronics and appliances retailer reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit, as it benefited from higher average selling prices and set aside less to cover bad loans.
Rent-A-Center operates company owned rent-to-own stores which offer high-quality, durable goods such as consumer electronics, appliances, furniture and accessories to consumers under flexible rental purchase arrangements that allow the customer to obtain ownership of the merchandise at the conclusion of an agreed-upon rental period.
These individuals and organizations represent many industries, including automotive, consumer electronics, medical, aerospace, packaging, household appliances, furniture, sporting goods, and toys.
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Freescale makes embedded chips that go into a range of applications such as automotive electronics, wireless transmission devices and consumer appliances.
Best Buy (BBY) retails consumer electronics, home office products, entertainment software, appliances and related services through its retail stores.
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Samsung's Consumer Electronics businesses, which encompass Visual Display and Digital Appliances, registered an operating profit of 530 billion won in the quarter, up 550 percent year-on-year, on revenues of 10.67 trillion won.
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