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On June 6, 2016, Qingdao Haier (now Haier Smart Home Company) acquired GE Appliances for $5.6 billion. Under the terms of the sale, Haier has the right to use the GE brand name until 2056. GE Appliances launched a refreshed tagline ("good things, for life") in 2017, [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] a nod to its history with General Electric, which used the ...
Haier was founded as Qingdao Refrigerator Co. in 1984. With China opening up to world markets, foreign corporations began searching for partnerships in China. One of these, Germany's refrigerator company Liebherr, entered into a joint-venture contract with Qingdao Refrigerator Co., offering technology and equipment to its Chinese counterpart.
Hotpoint is a brand of domestic appliances.Ownership of the brand is split between American company Whirlpool, which has the rights in Europe, [1] Chinese company Haier, which has the rights in the Americas and Turkish company Arcelik which has rights in Russia and the CIS.
Today the company highlights those roots with a line of stylish and popular shirts called Arrow USA 1851. But as with much of the apparel industry, the production isn’t in the U.S.
From Airstream trailers and motorcycles to crayons and Stetson hats, many iconic brands and upstarts resist the urge to push all production overseas.
The company had a manufacturing base in Australia for almost 20 years and nearly 70 years in New Zealand, but stated it can no longer compete with low cost labour countries and had to close them. [7] [8] In 2012, Haier purchased over 90% of Fisher & Paykel Appliance shares. No changes in manufacturing or board of directors were made. [9]
It's no secret that in the fashion industry, most of our clothing is manufactured overseas. While there are a handful of heritage brands that have vowed to design and produce only in the U.S. to ...
In 2005, Haier sought to expand its share of foreign markets by acquiring rival white-goods OEMs and by expanding overseas production capacity. With backing from two large U.S. private equity funds, Haier made a bid to acquire U.S. appliance maker Maytag for $1.28 billion. The bid failed and Maytag was bought by Whirlpool for $1.7 billion. [23]