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Bottom-Mounted Freezer Refrigerators

October 6, 2011 — The Editors

Trends in refrigerator design do not change in significant ways very often. Most changes in recent years have been related to the energy efficiency of these appliances. But one very visible design change that has become popular in the last half decade is the placement of the freezer section below the refrigerator section of the machine. These newly designed refrigerators are called bottom-mounted freezer style refrigerators. Many of these machine, though not all, use a large pull out drawer to hold the freezer section instead of a compartment entered through a simple door.

Today’s market size is an estimated size of this market for bottom-mounted freezer refrigerators in North America.

Geographic reference: North America
Year: 2010
Market size: $3 billion
Source: “UPDATE: Whirlpool Petitions US for Trade Probe on Samsung, LG,” Advfn.com, March 30, 2011, available online here.
Original source: Dow Jones News and Whirlpool Corp.
Posted on October 6, 2011

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March 18, 2011 — The Editors

This market size, presented for 2007 and 2010, clearly shows the impact that the recession which began in December of 2007 has had on the worldwide sale of household appliances. The market sizes listed here include retail sales of: refrigerators, other than compact refrigerators; freezers; dishwashers; ovens; ranges; range hoods; cooktops; washers and dryers.

Geographic reference: World
Year: 2007 and 2010
Market size: $14.2 and $13.1 Billion respectively
Source: Hagerty, James R. and Sven Grundberg, “Whirlpool and Electrolux Post Weak Results, Face Price Pressures,” Wall Street Journal, 02/03/2011, p. B6.
Original Source: NPD Group

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Refrigerators in Homes

January 17, 2011 — The Editors

This market size referred to in this post is the number of refrigerators that were in place, in residential housing units in the United States in 2009. While the source does not specify that this is the number of full sized and primary refrigerators per residence, it would seem that that must be the case, since we all know somebody with an old refrigerator (or two) in the basement…

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2009
Market size: 126,534,000
Source: “Housing Units—Characteristics by Tenure and Region: 2009,”
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2011, Table 983, page 616, U.S. Census Bureau, available online here.
Original Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.