Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at its store in Seoul, South Korea, October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) ...

PORCIA, Italy (Reuters) - The boxy white and grey factory of this rainy northern town makes fewer than half the washing machines it did when Italy joined the euro. It is one of the many symbols of ...

The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at its store in Seoul, South Korea, October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to begin operating its new washing ...

LG Electronics Inc. held a grand opening of its 1 million-square-foot washing machine factory in Clarksville on May 29. Here, an LG employee assembles a front-load washing machine. LG employs more ...

How quickly things change. It was only 40 years ago that major household appliances were mass-produced in Western Europe, but there are already few factories left and most have been shut down or ...

The LG Electronics home appliance manufacturing plant in Clarksville, Tenn., has produced its 1 millionth washing machine. “This milestone is a tribute to the hundreds of men and women producing LG’s ...

It’s ironic that the closing of the factory occurs 100 years after the development of Fred Maytag’s first washing machine in Newton. It was in 1907 that he made and marketed first wooden-tub washing ...