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AEG (German company), Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft ("General Electricity Company"), former German electrical manufacturer AEG (brand), licensed by Electrolux to several companies for a variety of products; Anschutz Entertainment Group, an American entertainment company
The company originates from a merger of two companies—Lux AB and Svenska Elektron AB, the former an established manufacturer and the latter a younger company founded by a former vacuum salesman who had also been an employee of the former firm. [7] The origins of Electrolux are closely tied to the vacuum, but today it also makes major appliances.
As a result of the breakup and dissolution of the original company, Electrolux acquired the brand rights in 2005 and the name is also licensed to various companies: [25] Currently the brand is being actively promoted by Electrolux; it includes many of the same products that it formerly manufactured, such as power solutions energy devices ...
In 1997/98, BSH primarily expanded its holdings the U.S. BSH Home Appliances Partnership was founded in New Bern, North Carolina – now called "BSH Home Appliances Corporation" (formerly in Huntington Beach, California; since 2012, in Irvine, California), adding the New Bern manufacturing site to its factories.
The company name Hotpoint comes from the hot point of the innovative first electric iron. Invented by American, Earl Richardson (1871–1934) in 1905, he subsequently formed his Pacific Electric Heating Co. in Ontario, California, in 1906. [2] [3] The device became known as the Hotpoint iron, with its hottest point at the front and not the center.
While the company was owned by General Motors, its logo featured the phrase "Product of General Motors", and later renamed to "Home Environment Division of General Motors". Frigidaire was sold to the White Consolidated Industries in 1979, which in 1986 was purchased by Electrolux, its current parent. The company claims firsts including:
Tricity Bendix, Electrolux and AEG as well as Zanussi were all to be serviced by the one network. This was changed in the late 1990s and early 2000s as Electrolux sold or gave away the regional service centres, generally to the existing management or to area managers to run as independent businesses.
Asko Appliances AB is a company founded in Sweden that produces household appliances including refrigerators, dishwashers and washing machines. It was based in Jung in Vara Municipality in Västergötland. Asko Appliances is now owned by Gorenje Group which is a part of Chinese major appliances manufacturer Hisense. The products continue to be ...