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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.
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 ...
Topping the complaint list were cell-phone companies, with 38,420 complaints, up 41% over 2010. After that, the list includes (in order of number of gripes): new-car dealers
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.
The company's flagship product is the DishDrawer double drawer dishwasher which it claims washes dishes more efficiently than standard dishwashers or hand washing. [ citation needed ] The current Fisher & Paykel-branded product range includes built-in ovens, electric cooktops, dishwashers, dryers, freezers, ranges, rangehoods , refrigerators ...
The company is the country's third largest manufacturer of washing machines on Asian-type platforms (i.e., vertical axle), which Candy European-type models have been added to. Early in 2007, the acquisition of Doruk with the brand Süsler in Turkey gave the Group an industrial site for cookers, hobs, ovens, both built-in and free-standing.
Zhang Ruimin was born on January 5, 1949, to a working class family in Qingdao, Shandong; his parents were employed in a local garment factory. [5] As a youth, Zhang joined the Red Guards, visited Mao's birthplace, and attended rallies in Beijing since all schools had been closed, and when the movement was finally disbanded, he was able to avoid being sent down to the countryside.
Eight former SpaceX employees filed labor-law complaints with the NLRB in November 2022, alleging they were unfairly fired after they wrote company management a letter asking them to publicly ...