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Kenwood Appliances Kenwood Appliances, the manufacturer of household electrical products, is being acquired by De Longhi Pinguino of Italy for £46m. 19-Feb-2001 Kenwood Appliances, the manufacturer of kitchen equipment, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed company. 14-Dec-2000 Kenwood Appliances is to cut a further 200 jobs, as part of an ongoing programme to transfer the manufacture of kitchen appliances to other countries. 02-Dec-1999 Kenwood Appliances is planning to modernise its factory and head office in Havant in order to secure the 260 jobs at the site. 23-Oct-1999 Kenwood Appliances has sold its Isle of Wight engineering plant to management in a £1.1m deal, securing 135 jobs. 11-Jun-1999 Kenwood Appliances is to close its Havant factory with the loss of 260 jobs in order to import more kitchen products from China, although it will set up a new factory in the Portsmouth area to make water filters and the Chef mixer. 08-Jun-1999 Kenwood Appliances is cutting 97 jobs at factories in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, as part of a strategy to transfer production to China. 04-Feb-1999 Kenwood Appliances is to transfer more of its production from the UK to China in response to falling sales of food processors and fryers. 02-Dec-1998 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007