It said customer demand for electrical goods was the "growth engine" of the High Street.
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The town has a strong manufacturing tradition, particularly in machine tools and electrical goods.
The authority said residents recycled over 500 tonnes of small electrical goods at recycling centres last year.
Mr Reeve said the business had been hit by the number of people buying electrical goods online.
MEPs have backed revisions to laws that set out how electrical goods are recycled, reused and disposed of.
Electrical goods, such as irons and televisions, are easily shipped across borders, and thus have the smallest price ranges.
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Collection and recycling targets will now be based on the quantity of electric and electrical goods going on the market.
This is a huge undertaking for a company that until the mid-1990s concentrated on producing electrical goods for other manufacturers.
Today the company's products end up in goods ranging from cars to electrical goods, cosmetics, sports equipment and medical devices.
Demand for electrical goods at Christmas spurred trading at Comet where like-for-like sales were up 6.2%, helped by strong television sales.
Yaohan owns 29% of the Whimsy amusement arcades, which reward winners with tickets that can be exchanged for toys and cheap electrical goods.
He said Icetech had been facing two challenges - competition from cheaper Chinese imports and last year's collapse of the Comet electrical goods chain.
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Before Blockbuster was bought by Dish Network, there were media reports of ambitious expansion plans, including selling electrical goods such as televisions, mobile phones, and iPods.
The firm said it was aiming to build on its home catalogue base and had sent out a trial electrical goods brochure, NEXTeletric, to 300, 000 customers.
It is concerned that - because warranties are mostly sold in store along with electrical goods - there is a lack of competition in the marketplace.
She was on Radio Scotland's Business Scotland programme at the weekend, telling us that 40% of online clothing purchases are returned, and 10% in electrical goods.
We were selling children's clothes, discarded books and toys, plus a panoply of pans and pots and small electrical goods, which do not work outside the United States.
Partly for this reason, the handful of countries that have already introduced recycling programmes for electrical goods, such as the Netherlands and Sweden, have all chosen to make producers pay.
However the Commission did not rule out the possibility that a complex monopoly situations may exist within the sector, in favour of electrical goods retailers who offer extended warranties at the point of sale.
The new agreement between America and Europe should boost transatlantic trade in electrical goods, but the deal also gives American and European products an edge in each other's markets over goods from other countries.
David Owen, an economist at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, points out that consumer spending in Europe, unlike America, has stagnated over the past couple of years, leaving big pent-up demand for consumer durables such as cars and electrical goods.
Prototypes built by researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stanford University and Philips, a Dutch electrical-goods firm, can detect a substance that is present at a concentration of less than one part in a million billion.
European Union law states that all electrical and electronic goods should be covered by a two year warranty from the moment of sale.
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In every case, these ideas will save you money, cut energy use, and help balance your household's greenhouse gas budget -- the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere to produce goods or electrical power.
In several sectors, ranging from medical and electrical equipment to pharmaceuticals, the two sides have agreed that European organisations can test goods to American standards on behalf of American testing organisations, and vice versa.
If you have faulty goods that have a manufacturer's or third-party warranty, for example electrical items, you should be able to claim on this warranty to get a repair or replacement.
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