Unit sales of fridges and freezers have averaged about 9% growth a year since 1997.
Indian firms sense a fortune to be made by selling rustic folk their first fridges.
When people move, they tend to buy durable goods such as furniture, fridges and carpets.
Wandering round a supermarket warm, gorgeously lit corridors of open fridges full of tiger prawns and fillet steak.
Customers would be free to use other fridges, even making someone else's their default appliance.
Many old fridges contain chemicals called Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which damage the Earth's ozone layer.
Winning over consumers was easier, given the poor quality of fridges then on the market.
It is also designing washing machines with manual motors and tiny fridges for homes with unreliable electricity.
Wiltshire Council said it would be helping people affected with domestic items such as cookers or fridges.
For millions of consumers who use dishwashers, fridges, ranges and other common appliances on recall lists, apparently not.
The commission says some two million used fridges have been imported to Ghana, mainly from the European Union.
Looters sacked the German embassy and a French cultural centre in the capital, taking furniture, fridges and electrical equipment.
This was strange, as their fridges, tractors and so forth are among the few sellable products that Belarus makes.
Haier, a Chinese maker of dishwashers and fridges, focuses on consumers that many of its rivals neglect, such as students.
Pat Grant, joint managing director of Norfrost, a Caithness company employing 350 people making fridges, has joined Business in Scotland.
Free lunches, beer fridges and nonexistent dress codes help put a demonstrative line between startup culture and that of big companies.
Nurses and care workers should examine elderly people's fridges to see if they are at risk of falling ill, say doctors.
Fewer live in substandard houses, more have cars, fridges, boomboxes and other necessities that were luxuries a couple of generations ago.
By one estimate, last year Indians spent more money on gold than on cars, two-wheeled transport, fridges and colour televisions combined.
The company claims to have 50% of the U.S. market for the small fridges that inhabit offices and college dorm rooms.
Kodak's vision of the perfect home, with wall-to-wall pics, and two fridges to provide enough space for those not worthy of wallspace.
The problem is that some things, such as the polyurethane foam used for the most efficient fridges, cannot be recycled as anything.
Demand is expected roughly to double over the next decade as manufacturing output expands and more Indians buy televisions, computers and fridges.
ECONOMIST: India��s electricity problems: An area of darkness | The
Large retailers that have cut their in-store credit costs for items such as fridges and washing machines are reporting a pick-up in sales.
Last year, we saw the likes of Motorola, LG and Samsung continue to demonstrate their technical skills on washing machines, fridges, home automation and even cars.
In Italy, Merloni, despite its unusually good labour relations, cannot mirror in its production cycle the highly seasonal demand for fridges and freezers.
There is an average of 336 fires involving fridges or freezers in the UK each year and an average of 69 people are injured.
This allows them not just to buy things like fridges or cars but to improve their health care or plan for their children's education.
Reporters said they had seen fridges, ceiling fans, fire engines, pieces of corrugated iron and even a grand piano being wheeled along the streets.
The directive was originally passed in 2003 and sets out targets for the collection and recycling of items such as fridges and mobile phones.
应用推荐