AMDEA, the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances, has taken a deep dive into the work and challenges of the past year.
In its 2024 report, ‘A Year in Review’, the Association said it was a challenging year for the domestic appliance industry with a plethora of regulations and standards being developed and coming into force, as well as a continued slow market.
In the report, outgoing Chair of the Board of AMDEA, Teresa Arbuckle (pictured), shared her perspective on the past year: “I am proud to have led the organisation through significant change in order to properly transform AMDEA,” she said, “creating a new-look trade organisation that is now very well set to represent member and stakeholder interests as we face the challenges of the future.”
Ms Arbuckle (who is also Regional Managing Director of Beko UK & Ireland with Beko Europe) also said that after six years in the role, it was time to hand the baton over to a new Chair this year to continue the Association’s successful work going forward…
She added: “AMDEA will continue to provide its members and stakeholders with the outstanding services, information, resources, and representation that it currently offers, and it will continue from strength to strength.”
After she joined the organisation, Ms Arbuckle’s first initiative was to lead the appointment of Paul Hide as the new CEO of AMDEA…
“Paul and I have worked closely together to improve the way in which AMDEA delivers its services for members and promotes positive industry actions and outcomes to our stakeholders, partners, and consumers,” she commented, “whilst dealing with the impacts of a UK outside the EU and post the Covid pandemic. We set AMDEA on a more secure financial footing, grew the membership, (which is still growing), and incorporated a more diverse small appliance membership.”
AMDEA’s new team have consistently addressed the numerous changes in policy, legislation, and technical standards of the past six years. The AMDEA Board, and the industry, have put sustainability at the heart of their collective strategies. We’ve seen highly successful consumer campaigns raising awareness of the technological advances that modern appliances incorporate to save energy and water, improve safety, repairability and maintain long product lifespans.
Ms Arbuckle continued: “I am confident that AMDEA will continue to provide its members and stakeholders with the outstanding services, information, resources, and representation that it currently offers, and it will go from strength to strength.”
In addition, AMDEA’s Know What’s Watt campaign won another award in 2024 and reached more people than ever; it also launched campaigns on the industry’s progress towards wider sustainability goals, including a new sustainability section on its website, highlighting videos of AMDEA members meeting the challenges of net zero and delivering a circular economy.
“I am grateful for the hard work of the AMDEA team over the past year and thank all of our partners and stakeholders who have worked with us to deliver change for the better,” Ms Arbuckle added.
“As I look back on my time as Chair, I am immensely proud of what we have achieved together.”
