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October 2020

Thursday, 29th October 2020, Velenje Millionth cooking appliance as an award to an employee from galvanising plant

On October 19, Gorenje's cooking appliances factory produced the millionth cooking appliance this year. Never in the history of Gorenje have we reached this annual milestone so quickly, as we usually reached one million manufactured appliances only at the end of December. We donated the jubilee cooking appliance to our colleague Dragica Senić from the galvanising plant.

Thursday, 15th October 2020, Velenje We will first offer employment in the new TV factory to Gorenje employees

In January 2021, we will start the production of Hisense brand TV sets for the European market in Velenje in the Gorenje area, as part of the new Hisense Europe Electronic company. In the first phase, we will employ 330 production workers, and taking into account the professional staff, we will create around 400 jobs in the new factory by January. We will first offer the possibility of employment in the new TV set factory to employees from the production plants in Gorenje.

Friday, 2nd October 2020, Velenje There will be no strike at Gorenje, more than 92 percent of employees decided to work on Monday

As more than 92 percent of employees decided to work on Monday despite the announced strike, there will be no strike at Gorenje. According to the company's original plan, production workers will therefore receive an extraordinary bonus based on production savings for September, October and November.

September 2020

Tuesday, 29th September 2020, Velenje Trade union announced a strike, although the company wants to pay workers more than 2 million euros in special bonus

Gorenje, d. o. o., on 25 September paid a special bonus for August to all employees in Gorenje's factories, IPC and Gorenje's support services directly related to production. We also intend to pay out this bonus for the following three months. Employees in production have been an extremely important part of the company's recent success with their quality and dedicated work, so the management decided to pay this bonus despite the fact that after the last three consecutive successful months, the company still shows a cumulative loss in the period January-August 2020. Upon this decision, Trade Union announced a strike.

August 2020

Monday, 10th August 2020, Velenje, Valjevo, Mariánské údolí Hisense Europe Group and trade unions stand united in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic

Hisense Europe Group (HEG) management and representatives of trade unions at the plants in Slovenia (Velenje), Serbia (Valjevo) and the Czech Republic (Mariánské údolí) stand united and are committed to their intention to protect the health of all employees across Europe during the coronavirus pandemic. There is no higher priority for us than the safety and health of our employees and their families.

July 2020

Wednesday, 15th July 2020, Velenje Gorenje is entering China’s high-end market as "Gu Luo Ni"

Gorenje, a European home appliances brand, is continuing its successful growth on China’s high-end market. This year Gorenje is celebrating its 70th anniversary, which is an excellent opportunity to present the brands’ qualities to Chinese consumers. We have decided to come even closer - as it is frequently done by foreign brands in the Chinese market, we have also adapted the brand name Gorenje to Chinese pronunciation. Thus, we proudly present Gu Luo Ni!

Tuesday, 14th July 2020, Velenje Measures in Gorenje already showing results: increased orders, June the first profitable month in 2020

In recent weeks, the company has gained a larger number of orders for August, September and October. Increased orders are good news for the company and its employees and are the result of a number of timely measures took by the management to strengthen operations, adapt to the situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and to improve business results. All these measures have resulted in a positive turnaround, as June was the first profitable month this year.

Wednesday, 8th July 2020, Velenje Gorenje a global R&D center for cooking appliances and dishwashers within the Hisense Group

Since June 2020, Hisense Gorenje has been establishing in Velenje, Slovenia, a global research and development (R&D) center for cooking appliances and dishwashers for the entire Hisense Group. At the end of June, we also started the production of Hisense brand dishwashers for the American market, which is the first order for Slovenian production under this brand for the American market. Both achievements are the result of Gorenje's top development competencies, which were also recognized by the global corporation Hisense.

June 2020

Monday, 15th June 2020, Velenje Hisense TV set factory will start production in Velenje in January 2021

The management of Hisense Group has confirmed the decision to establish a new TV set factory in Velenje. The production of this product group will be established within the production site of Hisense Gorenje, in one of the existing production halls and will begin operating in January 2021.

May 2020

Thursday, 28th May 2020, Velenje G·Force Free vacuum cleaner from Gorenje wins prestigious Red Dot award

Innovative Gorenje G·Force Free SuperPower SVC252GFA cordless vacuum cleaner won this year’s Red Dot award for product design. Gorenje is one of the few global brands and among 60 countries to win this prestigious award. This is the first time, a vacuum cleaner from Gorenje has been rewarded for its finest quality and design.

Thursday, 21st May 2020, Velenje Gorenje has already reduced the number of layoffs due to business reasons by 40%

At the end of April, due to a sharp drop in orders and revenues as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, the Hisense Europe Group launched a redundancy program in four companies in Slovenia. After adopting the criteria for determining redundant workers, in which the trade union did not want to participate, we then reached an additional agreement according to which in any Hisense Gorenje company where there are redundancies, both of the spouses or extramarital partners can not lose their jobs, also any single parents will not be made redundant in any of the companies. Until the preparation of the draft redundancy program for the company Gorenje, d. o. o., which we have already presented to the trade union, we have managed to reduce the number of layoffs due to business reasons in this company by 40%, from the originally planned 544 to 327.

April 2020

Tuesday, 28th April 2020, Velenje “Hisense Gorenje is here to stay; therefore we need to take difficult measures now to ensure the company’s survival during global crisis.”

Today, the management of Hisense Gorenje held a meeting with trade union representatives of SKEI trade union of Gorenje and Hisense Gorenje Europe. The management presented in detail the severe impact of COVID-19 epidemic and following global economic crisis on the business performance of Hisense Gorenje companies and the crisis measures we need to take to ensure the survival of the company in the global economic crisis following the coronavirus epidemic.

Thursday, 23th April 2020, Velenje Hisense Europe Group forced to cut the number of employees due to severe economic impact of coronavirus pandemic

Following the announcement of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemic in Slovenia in mid-March, we have already seen a decline in household appliances orders in March 2020. The trend continues in April. As a result of state measures to ban the sale of goods and services to consumers, the sales of household appliances have fallen dramatically both locally and in most European countries, where restrictive measures have been implemented. In the first quarter of 2020, we recorded a significant loss, a large majority in March. In the second quarter of 2020, in April and May 2020 we expect an additional loss and, due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and completely changed circumstances on the markets, and a significantly worse performance than the original estimates for the period, which predicted a profit of € 1.1 million. Hisense Group is therefore forced to implement various crisis measures, among which is also reduction of the number of employees in all companies in the Group. In doing this, all Hisense Europe Group companies will strive to minimize redundancies by using soft methods of staff reductions, including the disinvestment of non-core companies, outsourcing, consensual leave, retirement, etc. We will also focus on sales increase, speeding up the e-commerce business and other operational adjustments to ensure the survival of the company in the expected global recession, following the coronavirus pandemic.

Saturday, 4th April 2020, Velenje Hisense Gorenje extends production shutdown in all its factories in Europe for another week

The management of Hisense Gorenje has decided, in the light of the current situation due to the coronavirus epidemic across Europe, to extend the shutdown of all its European factories for another week, from 6 April to 10 April 2020.

March 2020

Tuesday, 31st March 2020, Ljubljana Fighting the coronavirus: Hisense Group with a big donation of medical and protective equipment to Slovenia

Today, a donation by the Hisense Group of medical protective equipment arrived from China to Slovenia, to the Roje civil defense warehouse. It is one of the major donations to Slovenia, in total Hisense donated 200,000 protective masks to our country, 2,000 sets of protective clothing and goggles for healthcare professionals, 2,000 pieces of surgical protective clothing and 500 respirators, and Hisense also donated a medical ventilator (artificial lung) and assisted in the purchase of an additional 46 medical ventilators for the country, which will arrive in Slovenia within the next two days.

Friday, 27th March 2020, Velenje Fighting the coronavirus: In Hisense Gorenje we are helping with continued donations and education for businesses and individuals

In an effort to prevent the spreading of coronavirus, we have timely implemented strict health and safety measures in all Hisense Europe Group companies, and we have been successful at coronavirus prevention. We are sharing our experience with other companies, and the Government of the Republic of Slovenia highlighted Hisense Gorenje as an example of good practice of epidemic prevention in manufacturing companies. At the same time, we are donating protective and medical equipment to the institutions and businesses who need it most at this point. We also offered the Government of the Republic of Slovenia free use of our hotels and vehicles, should the situation regarding the spreading of coronavirus become so much worse that such support would be needed. In China we have already prepared a new large shipment of protective and medical equipment for transport to Slovenia, including 200,000 masks, 500 respirators and a ventilator (artificial lung machine) that Hisense will donate to Slovenia.

Friday, 20th March 2020, Velenje Hisense Gorenje is stopping production for the next two weeks in all its factories across Europe

Hisense Gorenje management decided, considering the growing coronavirus epidemics across Europe, to shut down the production in all its European factories.

Saturday, 14th March 2020, Velenje, Slovenia Fighting the coronavirus: Gorenje will donate healthcare protective equipment

Hisense Gorenje, in agreement with the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, donated 10,000 healthcare protective masks from its stock today, and in the coming days we will, with the support of the parent company Hisense in China, supply additional protective materials and equipment that is urgently needed in Slovenia and is currently lacking due to the coronavirus outbreak.

February 2020

Tuesday, 11th February 2020, Paris, France Gorenje Retro appliances on display in the Paris city center

A specialist home appliance and electronics retailer Boulanger, who is also our strategic partner in domestic appliances sales in France, displayed Gorenje’s popular Retro line of small and large domestic appliances in its storefront in the Paris city center, in the vicinity of the famous Paris opera house.

January 2020

Friday, 10th January 2020, Las Vegas At CES 2020, Hisense presents breakthrough innovations, highlighting their dedication to development of new technologies and confirms their status of technological leader

At CES 2020, Hisense is presenting their latest innovations in TV segment, smartphones, VIDAA intelligent platform, ConnectLife and many other breakthrough new products. The company that is ranking among leading global tecnological giants, has been awarded with several awards by independent user and consumer organizations.