Kitchen appliance companies, who to use

There is a little debate within the industry at the moment regarding kitchen appliance companies & which ones to use without filling your showroom & clients kitchens with the usual manufacturers such as Neff, Bosch, Siemens & Miele. It was even quoted on Linked In by one Linked in user "Experiences with alternatives to the usual appliance manufacturers? -I'm bored of Neff & Bosch!!"
I have a kitchen studio & I would say 80% of my displays are Neff and that mirrors in the sales split also. I have looked at other manufactures for a couple of reasons one of them being Neff's ability to hold themselves in God like status & behold anybody who is blasphemous to the brand, the other being to search out something not as expensive for clients who cannot afford to kit out their new kitchens with Neff's appliances. I do say to all customers if you are going to spend your money on something in the kitchen make sure you get quality appliances because this is the reason you are getting a new kitchen in the first place so that you can enhance you home and cooking experiences, but like I said even then not all people can stretch their budgets beyond a reasonable limit.

I have had personal experience in not only sourcing appliance for my studio but also for my home and I can honestly say after extensive research including look, touch and feel that Neff are the only brand that offer an extensive across the board range of appliances that can be married with each other in looks, they have some appliances that don't cost the earth albeit with less features than the pricier models but nonetheless they will do what they are supposed to do and you can match across the range. The features on some of their appliances far outweigh their competition, like the telescopic flex rails, steam setting in normal ovens, dough proving and then bread baking without the need to remove it from the proving process.

This sounds like a promotional blog for Neff, I can assure you it is not, Neff as a company have many flaws like most companies which I will not mention here but if the whole debate is about the appliance, it's after sales back up and it F+B's then in my honest opinion there is not better.

Russell