THE Powerhouse name is set to disappear from high streets and out-of-town retail parks, from next month.
27 June 2006

SOME of the biggest brands in consumer electronics are urging the UK Government to allow them to introduce a “visible” recycling charge on the retail prices of their products.
27 June 2006

ENVIRONMENT Minister Ian Pearson has called on dealers to stop selling inefficient set-top boxes.
27 June 2006

FLAT sales and a nine per cent slump in pre-tax profits were revealed by DSG International as it confirmed reports that it was to sell its stake in mobile phone stores The Link to partner O2 for £30 million.
27 June 2006

THE format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD high-definition discs heated up this week as the first Blu-ray disc player went on sale in the USA.
27 June 2006

DSG International – parent company of Currys, Dixons and PC World – is to get rid of its stake in mobile phone chain The Link.
21 June 2006

A MAJOR industry charity is struggling for funds since around 40 per cent of its donations disappeared with the closure and break- up of the companies that provided them.
21 June 2006

DESPITE a £19 million fall in annual pre-tax profits, Alba is expecting significant improvements ahead.
21 June 2006

A LOW-COST recycling scheme that includes take-back from stores has been launched by recycling organisation Repic.
21 June 2006

NEW Zealand appliance company Fisher and Paykel has bought Elba from parent company De’Longhi in Italy.
21 June 2006

LEEDS-based Empire Direct, better known for its discount online electricals business, claims it has now passed Powerhouse to become the UK’s third largest electrical retailer after buying six stores from the administrators of Miller Brothers.
15 June 2006

THE BBC issued a warning that its terrestrial HDTV trial could be put in jeopardy by “gatecrashers” who buy equipment to try to access the HDTV programmes broadcast to a closed audience of 450 London homes.
15 June 2006

SONY is entering the digital SLR market, a move that could shake up a part of the camera industry that has largely been the preserve of dedicated camera brands such as Canon, Nikon and Pentax.
15 June 2006

THE number of homes with their main TVs tuned to digital terrestrial TV service Freeview have for the first time overtaken traditional analogue-only households.
15 June 2006

MORE than 340,000 customers have signed up to Carphone Warehouse’s new broad­band offer.
15 June 2006

AFTER the success of last year’s inaugural Sky Independent Retailer Awards, the satellite broadcaster has unveiled this year’s awards programme.
14 June 2006

BRITAIN’s top white goods businesses fear that the Government’s failure to listen to manufacturers over the European electrical waste directive could leave some companies unable to operate profitably in the UK.
06 June 2006

MILLER Brothers – or at least part of it – has been saved.
06 June 2006

TOP Up TV, the digital terrestrial pay TV operator, is to launch an on-demand video library service this autumn.
06 June 2006

AS FEW as 60,000 people could be sitting down to watch live coverage of the World Cup on high definition televisions, according to research commissioned by online comparison site uSwitch.com.
06 June 2006

FLOORCARE maker Dyson has suffered its seventh mauling in a row with consumer magazine Which?
06 June 2006

RETAIL sales grew faster in May, year-on-year, than had been expected, according to the CBI’s latest quarterly Distributive Trades Survey (DTS).
06 June 2006