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White-Westinghouse is an American home appliance brand used under license by trademark owner Westinghouse Licensing Corporation. [1] It was created in 1975 when White Consolidated Industries bought the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's major appliance business. White Consolidated Industries was in turn acquired by Electrolux in 1986. [2] [3]
Electrolux products are sold under a variety of brand names (including its own), and are primarily major appliances and vacuum cleaners intended for home consumer use. [6] Electrolux has a primary listing on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the OMX Stockholm 30 index.
Pages in category "Electrolux brands" ... (appliance manufacturer) T. Tappan (brand) W. White Sewing Machine Company; White-Westinghouse; Z. Zanussi
Kelvinator joined White Consolidated Industries, a company that later acquired the rights to Frigidaire (originally owned by General Motors), Gibson, and White-Westinghouse product lines. Electrolux of Sweden acquired White Consolidated Industries in 1986, and combined WCI brands with Electrolux-owned Tappan to become WCI Major Appliances Group.
Workers will manufacture the company's Electrolux ICON, Electrolux and Frigidaire product lines, including drop-in/slide-in ranges, wall ovens, specialty freestanding ranges and cooktops. The $190 million, 750,000 square foot Memphis manufacturing plant began production of stoves and ranges in 2013.
White-Westinghouse, acquired by Electrolux in 1986; Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, sold to Northrop Grumman in 1996; British Westinghouse, later subsumed into the General Electric Company; Westinghouse Air Brake Company, founding name of WABCO; Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company (1928 – c. 2000)
Known as the oldest surviving robot in the world, Elektro was built at the Mansfield Westinghouse Appliance Division plant for the New York World’s Fair in 1939.
In 1979, European-based AB Electrolux (which had purchased Eureka five years prior) purchased the Tappan Stove Company. Seven years later, AB Electrolux purchased White Consolidated Industries, which manufactured Frigidaire, White-Westinghouse, Gibson Appliance, and Kelvinator products, and combined its Tappan holdings with these new products ...