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Post# 505392   3/20/2011 at 14:18 (4,782 days old) by keiththomas ()        

Does anyone remember Ocean Brand from the early 1990's that was sold at Iceland which no longer sells applainces any details on that brand history and what happended to them Thanks




Post# 505418 , Reply# 1   3/20/2011 at 15:55 (4,782 days old) by dj-gabriele ()        

In Italy Ocean is a brand from the Fagor-Brandt group, very low end of the line, I don't know if it was the same company as in Iceland.

Post# 505428 , Reply# 2   3/20/2011 at 16:52 (4,782 days old) by aegokocarat (United Kingdom)        

ohhhh yes it was!! i saw a rebadged blomberg type on ebay

Post# 505431 , Reply# 3   3/20/2011 at 17:00 (4,782 days old) by hoover1100 (U.K.)        
Ocean

Part of the Fagor-Brandt group, and still sold in other Countries as Gabriele says.

I wouldn't even buy crappy party food from Iceland (a really cheap nasty frozen foods store over here) let alone appliances!

Matt


Post# 506155 , Reply# 4   3/23/2011 at 14:33 (4,779 days old) by keiththomas ()        

Matt, They stopped selling appliances some years back, did ocean and CAndy and their own brand of Freezers. Iceland started i think in 1970

Post# 506200 , Reply# 5   3/23/2011 at 17:44 (4,779 days old) by Vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)        
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Actually it could have been the 1960s - Iceland was previously known as Bejam, and was still trading under that name until the late 1980s. It was common then for freezer centres, as they were then known, sold (usually chest) freezers as well as bulk food
Al


Post# 506201 , Reply# 6   3/23/2011 at 17:47 (4,779 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia)        

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Nothing wrong with an Ocean machine if it is a rebadged Blomberg/Brandt....

 

We had a Blomberg 1301A from 2001-2004 and left it behind in the flat when we sold it....it performed faultlessly on both a wooden floor and a concrete one....never out of balance and great results....

 

 


Post# 506209 , Reply# 7   3/23/2011 at 18:08 (4,779 days old) by SuperElectronic (London, UK)        

I had the Ocean brochure at one point - sadly long since thrown away. Apparently it was a fusion of manufactures across Europe but essentially, as already stated, was a Brandt product.

They also popped up as the Proline brand and if the the one I had is anything to go by, they were pretty rugged machines (though one would want plenty of options to make it half-decent!).

Machines looked similar to mine below but with different fascias and a squared door.

Very popular in South Africa as I understand under the Defy brand.


Post# 506504 , Reply# 8   3/24/2011 at 15:48 (4,778 days old) by Keiththomas ()        

Oh Yes I remember seeing this machine at comet around 1993, we still have a profile upright freezer.

Post# 506506 , Reply# 9   3/24/2011 at 15:49 (4,778 days old) by Keiththomas ()        

Sorry my typing I mean a proline Freezer from 1993. Comet still use this as their own brand used to eb Solavox before then


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