New Product Warranty: Empirical Evidence from Polish and Slovenian Furniture Industry

Abstract

• The aim of the study was to recognize the attitudes towards new product warranty issues in marketing practice of furniture manufacturers. The results of a survey conducted among 75 Polish and

Determination of Reliability of Selected Case Furniture Constructions

“…Therefore, despite the obligation of a 2-year warranty period, required by the European Union regulations towards the manufactured products, on the furniture market, there is a tendency to design and produce furniture with a longer period of failure-free work, and in some cases to offer even an extended warranty period. The extended warranty is also used as a marketing tool to minimize the risk when buying long-term goods, such as kitchen furniture [24,25].…”