De Dietrich Domestic Appliances

Appliance Manufacturer & Brand Information

De Dietrich has a long history, the name can be traced back to the 18th century but over the years the appliance side has been sold a few times to different owners.

De Dietrich claim three centuries of innovations, state of the art kitchen appliances that enhance your lifestyle. We'd not fully agree with that, especially given that the name has not been owned by the same people for that length of time and it seems to be stretching the truth somewhat.

De Dietrich launched the first range of vitro-ceramic hobs with integrated knobs in 1985.

The French De Dietrich was bought by Spain's Fagor Electrodomesticos.

In late 2013 the Fagor parent group collapsed however and De Dietrich almost died along with the demise of Fagor but, for the UK and Eire at least it has been picked up by an Irish distributor called KAL. Servicing and spares arrangements are currently not confirmed.

Priced towards the upper mid to top end of the market it would appear that Fagor want to take on the likes of Bosch, Siemens and Smeg.

The appliances and features are fine and probably would be well enough at home in this segment but they would often fall down on service and backup in the past when stacked up against the rivals. That however is changing and we hear that further changes to help solidify the service backup further are due to be undertaken during the course of 2012/2013.

Which has brought us to change our opinion largely on De Dietrich, they are much better than they were in the past and now worhy alternatives to the likes of Smeg, Neff and so on.