In September 2014, Electrolux agreed to buy General Electric's household appliances business including the Hotpoint brand in North America for £2bn ($3.3bn). In December 2019, Whirlpool announced a safety recall for certain models of Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines manufactured between 20, due to faulty door interlocks which could potentially cause the machines to catch fire. In July 2019, Whirlpool finally issued a recall for the appliances and that up to 800,000 machines will either be replaced or repaired. In 2016, Whirlpool began sending out engineers to perform safety modifications to the recalled dryers. Whirlpool's had a turbulent ownership of Indesit Company as in 2015, Indesit Company released a statement announcing a safety alert for certain models of tumble dryers produced between 20 due to a design flaw which caused large particles of lint to escape the fluff filter into the dryer and build up around the heating element bank which posed a risk of fire. In October 2014, Whirlpool paid 56% of the purchased by for UK only marketing whilst 44% was bought out by Haier for US. From the end of 2011, Indesit rolled out the Hotpoint brand name across Europe, replacing the names Ariston and Hotpoint Ariston. In December 2008, Indesit Company acquired the final quota of shares from General Electric for US$57m. In 2005, Merloni Elettrodomestici rebranded to become Indesit Company.Īt the beginning of 2007, Indesit Company launched the group's new brand architecture, Hotpoint, and combined with Ariston to form the Hotpoint-Ariston brand. Indesit UK has been based at Hotpoint headquarters in Peterborough since 1 June 2003. At this point, Hotpoint employed around 7,000 people at its four sites in the United Kingdom, three of which later closed. from which Indesit Company ( then called Merloni Elettrodomestici) took over and then Indesit was bought out by Hotpoint on 21 December 2001 for £121m. In 1998, the Redring and Xpelair brands also joined GDA, and Hotpoint was categorized as part of GDA Applied Energy. 50% of GDA was purchased by General Electric (USA), with whom it owned the joint venture. Hotpoint continued as a subsidiary of GEC until 1989, when it was merged into a new division of GEC called General Domestic Appliances (GDA).
By the 1960s it was the market leader in household electrical appliances in the United Kingdom, followed by Sweden's Electrolux. In 1929, HEAC joined the Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) group, itself bought by The General Electric Company in 1967. To this day, many Hotpoint appliances are made at Louisville, the largest appliance plant in the world. Most Hotpoint production moved to GE's mammoth Appliance Park manufacturing complex in Louisville, Kentucky in the beginning of the 1950s. It became known as the ' Edison General Electric Company' in 1931. In 1927, GE bought the factory and entire company. In 1920, it established a joint venture with competitor General Electric, forming the ' Hotpoint Electric Appliance Company' Limited (HEAC) to market GE (USA) branded goods in the United Kingdom. In 1918, the company, known as the ' Hotpoint Electric Heating Company', merged with the Heating Device Section of General Electric, becoming the 'Edison Electric Appliance Company'. Richardson founded his own settlement, Adelanto, California, in 1915.Įdison Electric Appliance Company It is claimed to have developed one of the earliest electric toasters in 1908, known as the El Tosto, and later, under GE, the Hotpoint brand name became one of the most popular brands of toaster in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Hotpoint sign in Great Barrington, Massachusetts Earl Richardson also invented the first iron that switched off automatically when a maximum temperature was reached. In 1912, the company began making electric irons, and in 1919, electric cookers in the United States. Hotpoint was founded in 1911 by Earl Richardson. The device became known as the Hotpoint iron, with its hottest point at the front and not the center. Invented by American, Earl Richardson ( 1871–1934) in 1905, he subsequently formed his 'Pacific Electric Heating Company' in Ontario, California, in 1906. The company name Hotpoint comes from the hot point of the innovative first electric iron.
History Pacific Electric Heating Company Ownership of the brand is split between American company Whirlpool, which has the rights in Europe, and Chinese company Haier, which has the rights in the Americas through its purchase of GE Appliances in 2016. Hotpoint is a British brand of domestic appliances. Washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers, cookers, tumble dryers 1911 112 years ago ( 1911) in Ontario, California, United States
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