Sam Fenwick
speaker
941 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Sam Fenwick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 4.
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Around $1,000 instead of US$3,500.
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Then it went on sale and then this summer happened.
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Everybody wants aircon.
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You can see it in the trade data.
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According to Chinese customs figures, air conditioner exports to the European Union hit nearly $3.8 billion in the first half of this year.
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That's up more than 40% on last year.
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Madea and companies like it sold out of portable aircon units quickly.
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And they're still struggling to keep up with demand, despite having doubled their production capacity this year compared with last.
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So September 2025, 10 months before the heat arrives, they, like their competitors, predicted wrongly.
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So when the heat did hit, they tried something else.
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That's quite a journey on a train from South China on a train.
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I mean, it's quite a journey on a ship, but on a train overland.
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Air conditioners from China to Germany by train.
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And it's not just Medea.
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The Chinese government official said last week that Medea's rival, Gris, has also swapped from ship to rail, cutting the journey time from about 40 days to 15.
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That's how short of air conditioners Europe is.
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So the shelves emptied and in the data you can see how quickly.
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Nicolas Leger is a retail analyst at Nielsen IQ in France.
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It's his job to count what people actually buy week by week.
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How would it compare normally with air conditioning and fan sales?
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