Midea TasteXpress Range Series

The TasteXpress™ range series embodies Midea’s commitment to providing surprisingly friendly solutions for consumers by combining the most advanced technology. Featuring cutting-edge innovations like XpressFry technology and MegaMax capacity, the TasteXpress™ range series deliver outstanding cooking performance, allowing users to prepare meals quickly without sacrificing taste or quality. Whether you’re air frying crispy snacks, baking a roast, or simmering a stew, the TasteXpress™ range series is built to meet the demands of the busiest kitchens.

XpressFry Technology for Crispy, yet Faster Cooking

One of the standout features of the TasteXpress™ Range Series is the incorporation of Midea’s proprietary XpressFry technology – unique feature designed to enhance cooking speed while maintaining exceptional food quality. The XpressFry system utilizes a powerful air fry function, which distributes heat evenly throughout the oven, ensuring that your meals cook faster and more uniformly than traditional methods. Convection technology further supports even cooking, making your food crisp and perfectly cooked in less time.

This advanced technology is ideal for preparing crispy, golden meals like fries, chicken wings, and roasted vegetables in less time. XpressFry reduces cooking time by evenly wrapping food with rapid heat from every direction, achieving a crispy, perfectly cooked result in a fraction of the time. With the TasteXpress™ Range, home cooks can enjoy restaurant-quality meals without the lengthy wait times typically associated with traditional cooking methods.

MegaMax Capacity for Cooking More at Once

The TasteXpress™ Range Series is designed with the modern home chef in mind. With MegaMax capacity, the series provides an expansive cooking space that allows you to prepare large batches of food all at once. Whether you’re preparing a family-sized meal, hosting a dinner party, or batch cooking for the week, the increased oven capacity ensures that you can cook more, saving time and energy.

With 6.3 cubic feet of space in select models (New electric 5-element FSR, stainless, MER30S5AST), the TasteXpress™ Range Series can accommodate everything from multiple casserole dishes to large roasts and pizzas, making it easier than ever to cook for larger gatherings. The 5-element cooktop in select models further enhances the range’s capacity, providing ample space to cook multiple dishes simultaneously, whether you’re boiling, sautéing, or simmering.

Fnac Darty closes the year with +1% and almost reaches 8 billion

Fnac Darty has made public its 2024 balance sheet, which consolidates Unieuro for the month of December alone . Net of Unieuro, sales increased by 1%, reaching almost 8 billion euros (7.93). Substantially stable in France (-0.3%), declining in Belgium and Luxembourg (-1.3) and increasing by 12% in Iberia thanks to the acquisition of the Portuguese stores of Mediamarkt. Online sales, which represent 22% of the turnover, grew by 2.2%.

More comforting are the data on margins: operating profit rose by 6% to 182 million, cash flow and EBITDA are improving as well as the financial position, so much so that the Board of Directors has proposed to shareholders a superdividend of 1 euro, more than double the one paid in 2023. 

KBIS 2025

Miele upcoming new line up of MasterCool Bottom mount refrigeration and the addition to Miele robust induction cooking category, which will now include the 36″ Induction Range. 
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Introducing the Specialista Touch: De’Longhi’s Latest Coffee Machine Innovation

De’Longhi unveiled its latest coffee machine innovation, the Specialista Touch, at the Coffee Fest.

The Specialista Touch features a 3.5” touchscreen that allows you to select from nine pre-set recipes, ranging from a creamy cappuccino to a refreshing cold brew. Its exclusive Bean Adapt system automatically adjusts the grind, dose, and temperature to ensure the optimal extraction of any type of bean. Additionally, its powerful steamer with Auto LatteArt ensures the perfect texture for professional-grade latte art.

What sets the Specialista Touch apart is its ability to guide you through five essential steps to achieve the perfect coffee. Combining touchscreen precision with the experience of manual preparation, it offers:

**Precision Grinding**: With 15 grinding levels and high-quality stainless steel burrs, the Specialista Touch guarantees precision and durability in every dose, whether single or double.

Philips OneUp

Launching the Philips OneUp electric mop. Gone are the days of sloshing around dirty water and endless wringing.

Philips OneUp dispenses clean water while also collecting dirty water✅ 2x Faster. 2x Cleaner ✅ No more buckets, dirty water, or wringing. ✅ Cleans with fresh water while sucking up the dirty one Say goodbye to old-school mopping and hello to a smarter, cleaner, and faster way to keep your floors spotless

Ninja propane outdoor cooking system

The new Ninja FlexFlame, Ninjas first propane-powered outdoor cooking system that delivers 5 unique ways to cook—all under one hood with zero compromises.
With precision temperature control, woodfire smoke, and high-powered cyclonic air, you get:

🥩Flavor-packed high-heat grilling
🍖Low & slow smoking made easy
🍗Faster, crispier roasting
🍕Artisan pizza making
🥞High-heat flat top griddling

Cyclonic Air: A high-velocity convection fan that provides heat within the grill cavity, resulting in faster cooking*, even crisping and browning, and the ability to preheat to 600°F in as little as seven minutes.
Precision Propane Flames: With a digital control panel, users can select a function and temperature that’s maintained through auto-adjusting flames, using up to 25% less propane*.
Ninja Woodfire Technology: Add smokey BBQ flavor to classic low-and-slow, cold smoke, or add smoke to any meal with just two cups of pellets.

Electrolux to keep production in Egypt

After an evaluation of various alternatives, Electrolux Group has decided to retain its business in Egypt since the value is considered to be higher if it remains within the Group.

The business in Egypt includes sales and production of major appliances as well as water heaters and is profitable with well-established and strong brands.

“We have a successful business in Egypt and after evaluating different options, we concluded that it will create a higher value by continuing to be part of the Group”, says Yannick Fierling, President & CEO of Electrolux Group. “Our objectives going forward are to take advantage of the growing market in Egypt and increase our market share as well as to expand export from Egypt.”

The potential divestment of the Group’s business in Egypt was communicated as part of the announcement on July 20, 2023 to initiate preparations for divestment of certain assets. After today’s announcement, this divestment program is closed