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Sharp Turns Home Cooks into Culinary Champions with Dynamic Oven Series

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Whatever the size of your kitchen, whatever the scope of your culinary know-how, you can cook like a champion with Sharp 45cm-60cm built-in ovens. Bringing some serious cooking style to your everyday kitchen experience, this range will put an end to your daily mealtime slog. No more anxiety, no more cooking set-backs. Designed with speciality functions as well as mealtime trouble-shooter features, Sharp ovens will clear the way to culinary success.

Steam-assisted Oven with Air Curtain

Designed to fulfil great culinary ambition, this extra-large 75-litre capacity oven promises to raise your game in the kitchen. Perfectly grilling and browning your food, it comes with 10 cooking functions enabling you to find exactly the right cooking conditions for every dish.

Any time you think you might need a little extra help, you can always count on Sharp oven’s steam-assisted power. If your meat looks in danger of becoming a little tough, or your vegetables a little dried out, then simply add a puff of steam with the manual steam option. One quick steam injection can change the course of your cooking, ensuring mouth-wateringly delicious results every time. steam-assisted functionality is also great for baking. Rather than fall flat or dry up, your pastries will rise, and anything you cook will stay crispy on the outside and mouth-wateringly juicy on the inside. Best of all, thanks to the steam, your cooking is likely to be more nutritious, as more of your dish’s vitamins and nutrients can be preserved with this cooking method.

When the pressure is on, you can always cheat your way to culinary success. With 150 bang-on-trend autocooking recipes, including 20 that are for steam-assisted cooking, this oven is always there to support you, automatically setting the ideal programme, temperature and cooking duration for every dish you can imagine.

Whatever you decide to make, you’ll aways stay cool thanks to the oven’s Air Curtain feature. Using an air stream, Air Curtain prevents any hot air from escaping the inside of the cavity whenever the oven door is opened.

For the dreaded post-meal oven clean, you can also count on more support. The oven’s VapClean+ function uses steam to dislodge grease and grime, leaving you nothing to do but gently wipe clean the inside of the oven.

45cm Compact Series: Small but Mighty

Discover your inner masterchef with our dynamic compact series. Comprising of a sleek 45cm oven and matching warming drawer, this range is designed to take you to new culinary heights. Small but mighty, both the oven and the warming drawer are the ideal fit for even tight kitchen spaces, enabling you to install both products as part of a drop down wall formation.

Designed with one of the largest capacities for a 45cm model, our 50-litre oven not only enables you to cook, grill and brown your food, but also to ensure extra special cooking results, even when you might have started to over-heat your dish a little. Thanks to its steam-assisted power, it not only gives you the power to bake more professionally, but also to refresh your dish with a quick puff of steam during the cooking process.

Bringing you more culinary adventure, it also comes with 20 autocooking functions and the VapClean+ function to take care of the post-meal oven clean-up.

Matching Warming Drawer

So much more than just a place to keep your dishes warm,Sharp matching warming drawer doubles up as an additional cooking support, offering a place for you to defrost food, warm up soups and pastries, and prove bread.

Thanks to its gentle push door mechanic, you can also open and close it without having to worry that the motion will cause any stored dishes to spill or capsize.

The PerFector 60cm Oven

Meet the PerFector, a game-changing oven that will correct and perfect your dishes. Why waste time putting on your oven gloves and re-positioning your oven tray when, simply by touching a button, you can automatically move your dish to one of five shelf levels? Compensating for any minor cooking oversights, this meal-time hero is made to keep your dish on track. If you find yourself short on cooking time, move your tray from the bottom to nearer the top of the oven to speed up the heating process and ensure a perfectly browned surface for your dish. If your food is beginning to look a little too crisp on top, then simply move it down a level or two for more gentle heating.

Sharp supermodel also comes with a whole host of other features, offering a series of 10 programmes, which include a pizza function for baking as well as a grill and turnspit cycle to make the perfect roast. For the post-meal oven clean, you can count on PerFector’s VapClean function, which dislodges and breaks down the toughest grease and grime using the steam generated from a water-filled tray.

AirStream Oven

Break all culinary rules and discover multi-dish cooking. Saving you more time in the kitchen, AirStream is the first ever oven to let you cook dishes across five shelf levels. In just one cooking session, you can make up to 5 pizzas or 100 cupcakes. What’s more, you can also be sure of perfectly even cooking results. Thanks to its double-fan structure and additional side air vents, this oven is capable of distributing hot air evenly, whatever the shelf level, whatever the shelf position.

With AirStream, you can also cater to individual dish requests, helping to keep the whole family happy at mealtimes. Instead of having to run separate cooking cycles for each requested meal, you’re free to cook 3 entirely different dishes together without ever having to worry about any cross-contamination of flavour or odours.

European Sales and Marketing Director, Alberico Lissoni, comments, “Designed for real life, our ovens support you through the good times and the bad, offering quick fix remedies for minor cooking mishaps. For us, cooking should be a passion for everyday life, giving cooks of all abilities more opportunity to experiment with recipes and to concoct dishes, all without having to worry about tweaking temperature settings, or moving the oven tray

Vestel and Daewoo partnership

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Vestel and South Korea’s Daewoo have agreed to expand their four-year production partnership.

Under the deal, Daewoo washing machines, boilers, refrigerators, dishwashers and televisions will now be produced at the Vestel City in western Turkey’s Manisa, according to a statement by Vestel.

Vestel will develop and produce premium products to meet the market trends and diverse needs of Daewoo Electronics’ overseas customers.

Vestel Group CEO Turan Erdoğan said that they will continue to cooperate with many of the world technology giants.

“Vestel exports its products to 155 countries. We improve ourselves by cooperating with world giants. Vestel and Turkey have made headlines around the world,” Erdoğan said.

“I believe that with its expanded scope, this agreement will be beneficial for both companies. Daewoo Electronics wants to secure a more solid position in the European market by combining its global sales network and marketing capabilities with Vestel’s advanced manufacturing

Nardi

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Nardi Electronics Italy will be present at IFA Berlin 2018 , to tell its vision of the future.

Innovation, design, technology, simplicity and functionality, safety and reliability are the distinctive features of each product of the Nardi range and specifically of the concepts displayed at the fair. Features that, combined with the Italian Feeling, make Nardi a company able to keep up with the evolution of taste and the needs of increasingly demanding consumers.

The concept of smart lifestyle , through intelligent cooking, is at the center of the Nardi world, a mix of design and high technology that can be managed and monitored remotely via the smartphone. Products that communicate with each other, which are not limited to the functions for which they were designed but offer the consumer the possibility of making the kitchen a multi-purpose space.

The revolution in the kitchen is the portable SL Nardi induction hob for cooking on the move and beyond. By positioning it, wherever an outlet is available, it allows you to perfectly cook your dishes thanks to its three induction zones with Booster function and to quickly charge the smartphone through the simple support in the appropriate space.

In addition to giving life to the oven, it is possible to remotely manage the air environmental monitoring system integrated in the SL hood , a model with a positionable fireplace, for minimal and clean design and aesthetics, in any environment. The device present in the Nardi hood, and managed by the dedicated App , is able to offer monitoring of at least 16 different environmental parameters that assess the status and air quality of an area of 80m². A unique and innovative opportunity to evaluate the safety and the “state of health” of the environment in which we live.

Using the Nardi “GenerazioneZ” application downloadable on your smartphone as a command interface with wi-fi connection, you can with a simple gesture and at any time, manage and follow wherever you are preparing food during cooking in our “TFT GenerationZ “.

The digital electric oven features Touch Control, PushPush opening, 10 basic cooking functions and 10 pre-set automatic programs and offers a compact and linear aesthetic that makes it a real piece of furniture.

SMEG oven looks like a winner

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The SFP6102TVS

Linea oven, the A1-9 free standing cooker and the SAB4604N Dolce Stil Novo blast chiller by Smeg received the Red Dot Design Awards, selected by a jury of international professional design experts, from different backgrounds. The products of the Italian company will so obtained great visibility thanks to the media support of the Red Dot Design Awards, the inclusion in the Year Book, the Red Dot App, the presence in the Museum of Essen and the “on tour” initiatives. Since 70 years, Smeg has worked tirelessly to combine aesthetics and technology, creating appliances that offer both style and functionality, expressing the Italian style

BSH

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Management BSH Hausgeräte GmbH

  • Growth worldwide: BSH sales revenue up in all regions; all brands and appliance categories make gains
  • BSH workforce tops 60,000 for first time, with almost 3,500 new jobs, 1,825 of them in Europe
  • Spending on capital investments and R&D increases again
  • BSH transforming into Hardware+ company – smart home appliances, digital services, Industry 4.0

Munich, March 13, 2018 (BSH) – BSH Hausgeräte GmbH has continued its trend of successes, reporting record sales revenue for the eighth time in a row. In fiscal year 2017, the globally operating, multi-brand company boosted sales to EUR 13.8 billion, growing considerably faster than the market. The worldwide home appliance market gained an average of two percent last year, while BSH sales revenue climbed a substantial 5.8 percent from the prior year (3.5 percent in 2016), thus expanding the company’s market lead as Number 1 in Europe. At the same time, BSH again increased its worldwide expenditures on capital investments as well as on research and development, putting itself on course for sustained growth.

“We’re right on track to achieve our long-term growth targets, while at the same time pursuing the cultural and digital transformation of BSH,” says Karsten Ottenberg, Chairman of the Management Board at BSH. By 2025, the company plans to expand Group sales revenue to EUR 20 billion. The BSH brand portfolio comprises 14 different brands of home appliances all over the world (including Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau, and Neff). Digital services for smart home appliances, marketed under Home Connect, are playing an increasingly important role. They offer consumers customizable added value, and tap additional sources of income for BSH with new, digital business models.

“The way people live, cook and do housework is changing. We want to remain consumers’ first choice all over the world, so we’re aiming to offer people exciting new possibilities. That’s why BSH continues to pursue its transformation into a Hardware+ company that provides not just excellent home appliances, but an increasing range of digital, individual services,” Ottenberg explains. “It’s why, for example, last year we acquired 65 percent of the shares of Berlin startup Kitchen Stories. This global food platform, whose recipes we’re gradually incorporating into our digital ecosystem Home Connect, lets us offer our consumers new experiences in all aspects of cooking within an increasingly connected kitchen world,” he says. Kitchen Stories is already being used by people in 150 countries.

All regions and brands contribute to record year

BSH sales grew in every region in 2017. In its two saturated markets, Europe and North America, the home appliance company enjoyed slight revenue gains1(Europe: + 2.1 percent; North America: + 0.1 percent). BSH expanded its market share in Europe, consolidating its position as the region’s market leader. In BSH’s other three regions2 it generated double-digit revenue increases in 2017. Performance both in the Asia-Pacific (+ 14.6 percent) and Greater China (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan (+ 14.1 percent)) were especially outstanding. Sales revenue in the T-MEA-CIS region (Turkey, Middle East, Africa and CIS countries) also showed extremely good performance, gaining 14 percent. On a local-currency basis, this BSH region even gained 25.1 percent, benefiting from vigorous sales growth in Turkey (+ 31 percent on a local-currency basis).

Net of currency effects, sales revenue for every BSH brand grew – and in every category of home appliances and services.

BSH workforce bigger than ever

In 2017, the workforce at BSH achieved a new record size. At the end of the fiscal year, the company had 61,856 employees worldwide, about 3,500 more than in the previous fiscal year. The company created new jobs in every region – 1,825 in Europe, some 400 of which were in Germany.

Profitable business performance supports record investment

As in previous years, BSH invested vigorously in the future again in fiscal year 2017. Investments (about EUR 637 million, or about 4.6 percent of revenue) and spending on research and development (about EUR 622 million, or about 4.5 percent of revenue) set new records. Three new factories started operations last year, two in Poland and one in China. Giengen, Germany, the pace-setter in Industry 4.0 excellence for the entire global BSH Group and the industry in general, saw operations start up at one of the world’s most up-to-date, fully connected production facilities within the home appliance industry. BSH also boosted its investments in 2017 in ways to offer consumers a seamless brand and service experience – both online and off. One example: BSH opened numerous brand stores and showrooms both in metropolitan centers like Vienna, Shanghai and Chicago and in growth markets, specifically in booming cities like Cape Town, Marrakesh and Mumbai. The company is also testing services that enable consumers who use heavily frequented social networks (like WeChat in China) to custom-configure their home appliances online.

Hisense and Gorenje

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China’s Hisense, which has been picked by Gorenje as its the new strategic partner, promises development of the Slovenian household appliances maker. The potential partner also said it would respect the principles of trust and integrity, and maintain the stability of jobs at the Velenje-based company.

Hisense & Gorenje

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Hisense Luxemburg Home Appliance Holdings, part of a Chinese holding, has placed an offer to purchase all shares of Gorenje Gospodinjski aparati, the latter company stated. Earlier in May, Gorenje announced it had chosen Hisense as a strategic partner offering it 50 percent plus one share at €12 per share.

Hisense Electric Co Ltd has won the bidding process for Slovenian appliances producer Gorenje

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Chinese home appliances maker Hisense Electric Co Ltd has won the bidding process for Slovenian appliances producer Gorenje, which said it received three binding offers by interested strategic partners from Asia on Tuesday.

Hisense offered the best bid of 12 euros ($14.2) per share subject to its acquisition of 50 percent plus one share of Gorenje in the takeover procedure, the Slovenian firm said in a statement on its official website.

Hisense has committed to launch a takeover intent within 15 days and to make a takeover offer in accordance with the statutory deadlines, according to Gorenje.

Gorenje said on Tuesday it received bids from three companies who had performed due diligence over the past several weeks, but it did not reveal the names of the bidding companies.

The other two bidders were identified as the Chinese home appliance maker Haier Group and Hefei Meiling Co Ltd, according to reports by local newspapers Finance, Delo and Dnevnik. The three bidders declined to comment on the matter.

Gorenje reported in March that its 2017 net profit fell 84 percent due to cost pressures and strong competition. It was seeking a strategic partner to increase cost efficiency and strengthen the brand.

“Acquiring local companies is the easiest way for Chinese household appliances producers to expand their presences in the global market,” said Zhang Yanbin, assistant director of All View Cloud, a Beijing consultancy specializing in home appliances, adding the European market is of great significance to Chinese appliance manufacturers.

The Chinese home appliances market is almost saturated, so domestic makers are looking overseas to find new business growth points. The acquisition will allow the Chinese company to obtain local customers quickly and reduce production costs, Zhang said.

Hisense, which is based in Qingdao, Shandong province, has been relying on its go-global strategy to expand. “Hisense is counting on overseas markets for future growth,” said Zhou Houjian, the company’s chairman, in an earlier interview, adding it is targeting the middle and high-end segments of the market.

The company has secured sponsorship deals for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, becoming the first-ever Chinese consumer electronics brand to sponsor the tournament.