Despite declining markets and an even stronger euro, the Miele family company remains squarely on growth course. The world's leading manufacturer of premium domestic appliances achieved sales of € 4.1 bn in the 2017/18 financial year ended June 30, 2018. This amounts to a year-on-year increase of € 167 m or 4.3%.
Haute cuisine winging its way to the guest? What this entails precisely was today explained by Frank Jüttner, Managing Director of Miele's German sales subsidiary, at the Innovation Media Briefing IFA preview in Berlin. At the same time, he provided a summary of the products to be presented by the Gütersloh family-owned company in early September in the shadow of Berlin's famous TV transmitter.
At the last IFA exhibition, Miele presented its new dialog oven. Now, a startup called MChef is set to deliver top-class cuisine to your home: Superior three-course menus, served and arranged on elegant plates – and ready to be cooked to perfection in a customer's own dialog oven.
Wait and collect laundry or have pangs of conscience about washing only one or two small items? Both is now a thing of the past. Thanks to Miele's new SingleWash feature, even the smallest of loads right down to a single garment can now be washed economically, fast and hygienically.
At IFA, the German family-owned company will be launching a new flagship model in its range of countertop coffee machines. Not only does the CM 7750 CoffeeSelect offer no fewer than four useful features which can only be had from Miele, it is now possible for the first time to select from three different bean types at the touch of a button. A new conical grinder made from stainless steel grinds exceedingly quietly and gently, without leaving any residue behind.
Freestanding Miele lab washers from the new SlimLine range deliver on the promise in their name: With a width of only 65 cm, they require only a small footprint whilst offering maximum capacity.
With a new range of accessories for lab washers, Miele is drastically cutting the effort needed to load machines and is also protecting lab glassware against damage: EasyLoad is the name of the system which simplifies and speeds up loading.
Whether visibly soiled or microbiologically contaminated: In reprocessing laboratory glassware, the documentation of process data in the interests of quality assurance is key. The Miele DataDiary app is as reliable as it is time-saving.
The new lab washers from Miele Professional are more powerful than ever before – and require less water, electricity and process chemicals. This is the result of a new and intelligent water circulation system which adjusts the spray pressure in each individual programme phase to specific requirements.
In the interests of the effective reprocessing of laboratory utensils and the long-term maintenance of valuable equipment, Miele now offers process chemicals – specifically formulated for a variety of applications and soils and designed to match its new and powerful lab washers. Detergents can be ordered with just a few clicks of the mouse from Miele's online shop for commercial products.
SingleThread farm restaurant in Sonoma County, California, has been named this year’s Miele One To Watch by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Founded in December 2016, SingleThread is a partnership between husband-and-wife team Kyle and Katina Connaughton, comprising a restaurant, inn and farm built on the ethos of Japanese omotenashi – the spirit of selfless hospitality – bringing an infusion of Eastern philosophy and culture to the farm-to-table concept.
In the current vacuum cleaner test by Stiftung Warentest (StiWa), Germany's leading consumer watchdog, the Complete C3 Red EcoLine from Miele made it to the top of the winners' rostrum. The test covered 20 vacuum cleaners with a maximum rated load of 800 W; eleven of these featured a dust bag. Among these, Miele was test winner with an overall mark of 1.9 (test 6/2018).
New Miele products simplify work in laboratories: Two washers requiring only a very small footprint marketed under the SlimLine logo, a new loading system – and an app for the wireless recording of reprocessing data. The live premiere is due to be staged at Miele's booth at the Achema 2018 in Frankfurt (June 11-14, Building 4.1, Stand H 15).
Whether in offices or small businesses: Wherever several dishwashers are in operation, the new MielePro@mobile app helps keep tag on their status. It shows which machines are still running, whether all machines are in proper working order – and reports on liquid detergent levels, a practical reordering option included.
The new lab washers from Miele Professional are more powerful than ever before – and require less water, electricity and process chemicals. This is the result of a new and intelligent water circulation system which adjusts the spray pressure in each individual programme phase to specific requirements.
Miele Professional offers matching inserts for laboratory glassware of virtually all shapes and sizes, guaranteeing thorough reprocessing in the current series of lab washers. As a result, more than 100 different load configurations can be achieved with Miele's versatile load carrier system.
In the interests of the effective reprocessing of laboratory utensils and the long-term maintenance of valuable equipment, Miele now offers process chemicals – specifically formulated for a variety of applications and soils and designed to match its new and powerful lab washers. Detergents can be ordered with just a few clicks of the mouse from Miele's online shop for commercial products.
Wellbeing within your own four walls depends to a large extent on the ambient room climate. Temperature, humidity and oxygen content are significant factors here. The “Healthy Home Coach” from Netatmo measures these parameters – and guarantees clean air in an instant with help of a Miele cooker hood.
New network applications make Miele domestic appliances easier and more convenient to use than ever before. So the company has further extended appliance control by means of voice assistant with the result that Amazon's Alexa has learnt a lot about cooking and washing since its market launch five months ago.
The refrigerator in the kitchen, the freezer in the cellar – that's so outdated today. Nowadays there is a lot of choice, especially with freestanding appliances that offer more freedom for planning than prescribed niches: A refrigerator, a freezer, a combination of the two and perhaps even a wine unit as well?
“Aura 3.0”, “Triple” and “Pure”: Even their very names give an intimation that these cooker hoods do not belong to the mainstream. Rather, Miele is offering three design concepts as original as they are different – that also leave nothing to be desired in terms of performance, convenience and energy efficiency.
A damp cellar with constant temperatures of between 8°C and 18°C offers the ideal conditions for storing fine wines. But who wants a damp, dank cellar in their home? Much better is a wine unit which ensures constancy of temperature, ideally as a built-in kitchen appliance.
Around 40% more dishwashers sold within the space of three years: This is the interim balance of a model offensive focused on conventional 60 cm dishwashers. Now Miele is following suit with its 45 cm slimline models by adding high-end features or reducing prices whilst staying 'premium' throughout.
With System4Shine, Miele is offering a complete package to cover all aspects of dishwashing – no matter how much needs washing and how! The system comprises cleaning products which are specially formulated for use on Miele commercial dishwashers, undercounter tank models as well as tried-and-tested passthrough models, fresh water dishwashers and ProfiLine washers.
It is a known fact that we spend a third of our time snuggling under blankets and duvets. The inlet of a duvet containing down, feathers or synthetic fibres is generally only washed once a year – as it is a complicated, time-consuming process and a science in its own right.
This year at the Eurocucina show Miele is presenting products to visitors on a considerably larger booth (17 - 22 April). The focal point here is the "Dialog oven" – a revolutionary new cooking appliance that will be introduced to the market in the second quarter 2018.
Cooking fish in a block of ice or a fillet of veal in a jacket of beeswax? Without the ice or the wax melting? The time has now come to reinvent cooking – with the Dialog oven from Miele. For the very first time, a technology is being deployed in which electromagnetic waves respond to the textureof food in an intelligent manner.
The Dialog oven from Miele makes preparing demanding meals faster and simpler than with any other cooking method – and with excellent results. Even the seemingly impossible succeeds, such as cooking a fish in a block of ice without the ice melting.
Space-saving combi units for the kitchen, but without entertaining any compromises in terms of convenience or performance: This is what Miele offers more than any other manufacturer. Now the Gütersloh company is augmenting its line-up of multi-talented products with the addition of an induction hob with an integrated extractor.
Uncompromisingly elegant, versatile and multifaceted – this is how the new SmartLine units from Miele present themselves to connoisseurs of fine cuisine. Customers can choose freely from induction hob, Teppan Yaki, gas ring, induction wok and countertop extractor.
Five trendy colours, compact dimensions and, naturally, the convenience familiar from Miele are the salient features of the new CM5 countertop coffee machines. Added to this is an attractive starting price which puts Miele in an admirable position in the highly competitive price bracket below € 1,000.
21 rooms, haute cuisine in the panorama restaurant and a spa for guests: the team from the 'Burg Windeck' hotel in the Rhine valley near Bühl has its work cut out. Nevertheless, the tenant hotelier Rolf Fischer sees to the laundry himself - between 15 and 20 times a day.
Five years ago, this technology was new and Gördt Glander one of the first Miele clients to adopt it: The junior boss at the Hotel Höltje in Verden in north-west Germany invested in a H2O dryer from Miele and a co-generation plant to produce electricity for his hotel.
Smooth and glossy flatwork is the pride of any hotel. That's why Miele offers high-performance and easy-to-use ironers to meet individual requirements, ranging from compact models through to large and convenient flatwork ironers guaranteeing a high throughput of up to 200 kg of laundry per hour.
System4Shine: Miele's comprehensive approach to dishwashing problems is now several products richer. New to the range are a detergent and a surfactant sporting the EU's EuroFlower label which demonstrably reduce the burden on the environment.
Miele is to intensify its cooperation with 'The World’s 50 Best Restaurants': The world's leading purveyor of premium domestic appliances is now, with immediate effect, exclusive kitchen appliance partner of the international awards organisation and will, among others, present the 'Miele One To Watch’ award to rising-star restaurants in the premium dining scene.
The family-run Miele company has subjected its central visual branding element to a makeover – its logo. More specifically, the red background around the characteristic lettering has now been enlarged slightly and the vertical height increased in terms of aspect ratio. At the same time, the traditional 'signal red' has given way to a darker shade of red which has already been giving distinction to Miele' branding in the retail trade for several years.
