LG has announced the opening of its new European Design Centre in Covent Garden, London, UK. LG will be investing by US$4.8 million into design programs in Europe in 2008 alone. The first fully European designed product, a mobile handset, is to be unveiled that August. LG’s European Design Centre will house a multi-national team of 22 expert designers by 2009, from across Europe. The current team already includes British, Irish, Italian, French

and German designers. They will design products for LG’s entire range of consumer goods including; mobile handsets and devices, flat-screen TV’s and audio systems, white-goods and other home electronics.

The purpose of LG’s new Design Centre is to create European designs based on European consumers’ requirements. The designers will additionally be called upon to adapt products that will appeal to the European market, but which have been developed elsewhere.

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