<span style="font-size: medium;">Check out the washers!</span>
http://www.whirlpoolindia.com/index.aspx
http://www.whirlpoolindia.com/index.aspx
Whirlpool of India
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mrb627
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Funny
Got a virus alert and the Whirlpool india website was blocked by my pc.
Malcolm
Got a virus alert and the Whirlpool india website was blocked by my pc.
Malcolm
Hmmmm...
<span style="font-size: medium;">No alert with me. </span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">No alert with me. </span>
No virus alert here either. The site looks perfectly legit, but the appliances are pretty bogus. To say India is a little late to the frost-free party would be an understatement. I thought things were a little further along than that. Are all of those call center people over there using string and tin cans?
Another interesting website
This is the link to Whirlpool Hong Kong. It looks like they have washers from all parts of the world, you can choose European style, American style and Asian style washers.[this post was last edited: 9/16/2012-06:13]
http://www.whirlpool.com.hk
This is the link to Whirlpool Hong Kong. It looks like they have washers from all parts of the world, you can choose European style, American style and Asian style washers.[this post was last edited: 9/16/2012-06:13]
http://www.whirlpool.com.hk
<span style="font-size: medium;">Wow, they offer far more variety than the Indian site. </span>
Edited it, should work now.
<span style="font-size: medium;">Actually, frost free refrigeration is surprisingly recent to Europe as well Ralph. I remember seeing ads touting "new" frost free refrigerators (Candy brand) in Spanish magazines in the early 1990's. It must be because they consume more power. My partner bought a 2 door Whirlpool in Seville back in 2007, a big, American style, European model (it wasn't tall and thin, but wide like ours) and it too had to be manually defrosted.
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Actually frost free refrigeration is older in Europe than the 1990's, but it was never popular here. Not only did the frost free refrigerators consume more power, but they were rather expensive too compared to the non frost free ones. Another aspect is that the frost free technology takes up rather much space in the smaller European fridges.
A few years ago I bought a Bosch frost free refrigerator (bottom freezer). Although it was bigger than my previous non frost free fridge, there was not much more space in the on itself bigger freezer. Actually I was rather disappointed with the space so I bought an extra non frost free freezer (Liebherr).
A few years ago I bought a Bosch frost free refrigerator (bottom freezer). Although it was bigger than my previous non frost free fridge, there was not much more space in the on itself bigger freezer. Actually I was rather disappointed with the space so I bought an extra non frost free freezer (Liebherr).
So they don't all go down the banks of the Ganges to do laundry! I wonder who makes the front loaders they market in India? Once those glaciers finish melting, India is gonna be short of water.
glenfieldmathk1
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India washers, look like Beko's!!
Maybe Beko (or its parents) got a deal from Whirlpool to make some machines.
Maybe Beko (or its parents) got a deal from Whirlpool to make some machines.
launderess
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Asian, South American and "Third World" Countries
Are the next and possibly the last area of growth for everything from appliance makers to consumer products including automobiles from the West.
It's simple economics that played out the same way across Europe, the UK and North America; as the standard of living expands to middle and even lower classes consumer goods become affordable and even desired as a way of showing wealth and status. It was just a generation ago most Chinese still rode bicycles, now the country is the fastest growing automobile market (IIRC) on earth.
While still having a way to go in terms of bringing a majority of it's population up to "high poor" status much less middle class, India is changing and bringing withit a market for all that we here hold dear in terms of goods.
If history is any indicator one of the first mod cons a household will want in these developing countries is a washing machine.
Are the next and possibly the last area of growth for everything from appliance makers to consumer products including automobiles from the West.
It's simple economics that played out the same way across Europe, the UK and North America; as the standard of living expands to middle and even lower classes consumer goods become affordable and even desired as a way of showing wealth and status. It was just a generation ago most Chinese still rode bicycles, now the country is the fastest growing automobile market (IIRC) on earth.
While still having a way to go in terms of bringing a majority of it's population up to "high poor" status much less middle class, India is changing and bringing withit a market for all that we here hold dear in terms of goods.
If history is any indicator one of the first mod cons a household will want in these developing countries is a washing machine.
maytagbear
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First washers
Someone posted Hans Rosling's TED talk about washing machines, and he said that as soon as the infrastructure was there, so were washers!
Would someone be a darling and post it from YouTube?
Thank you in advance,
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Someone posted Hans Rosling's TED talk about washing machines, and he said that as soon as the infrastructure was there, so were washers!
Would someone be a darling and post it from YouTube?
Thank you in advance,
Lawrence/Maytagbear
