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• Best Buy Teams With Cooking.com on Kitchen Shop
  

  Best Buy Tuesday announced that it has reached an agreement with Cooking.com to launch a microsite, featuring cookware and kitchenware,...
• GE Appliances to Partner in Four Voluntary EPA Programs
  

  GE announced today that it has become a partner with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) WasteWise Program - a voluntary...
• BrightNest Unveils Homefolio, Organizes Home Info in the Cloud
  

  Today, BrightNest has announced the launch of "Homefolio," a cloud-based tool that seeks to help homeowners stay organized and...
• Best Buy Probe: Dunn Didn't Misuse Resources; Schulze to Step Down as Chairman
  

  Departed Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn engaged in " an extremely close personal relationship with a female employee that...
• Retailers Reap More Profit from Mobile Shoppers
  

  Mobile shoppers make a purchase 59% more often than desktop PC shoppers and over a two-year cycle will bring...
• Report: U.S. Appliance Manufacturing Growth to Continue Throughout 2012
  

  Manufacturing revenue overall, and in the Electrical Equipment, Appliances & Components segment specifically, is expected to increase, according to the...
• Lowe's Aligns Leadership
  

  Lowe's Companies, one of the largest U.S. appliance retailers, named new executive assignments. Lowe's Customer Experience organization, led by Gregory...
• PRO’s Manlove Calls for Industry ‘Transformation’
  

  One overarching theme that came out of last week’s PRO Group Spring meeting was articulated by PRO’s chairman of the...

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