FROM THE 2013 HGO PRODUCT GUIDE

BRIGHTON, Ontario (04 March 2013) - The market's still in down mode, and things won't pick up to a significant extent any time soon. That's the consensus of major Canadian appliance manufacturers, distributors and retailers, backed up by retail commodity figures from Statistics Canada. The latter show that retail sales of major appliances came in at a total of $1.96 billion for the first half of this year, essentially unchanged from last year and just shy of the $2.0 billion sold in the first half of 2010.