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Post# 610848 , Reply# 1 7/17/2012 at 23:33 (4,294 days old) by Supersuds  (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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I'll give it a shot.
Hotpoint in Great Britain, as I recall, was made initially by Associated Electrical Industries (AEI), a company which General Electric of the US partly owned at the time. A good many of their small appliances such as electric fans were based on US designs. The tariffs back then didn't allow for imports the way we have today, so they had to be locally made. Later designs diverged and at some point GE divested its AEI holdings. GE did get back into Hotpoint UK (by then owned by GEC, the General Electric Company of Britain, which was OLDER than GE of the US!)in the late 1990s through the formation of something called General Domestic Appliances. GDA was later dissolved and Hotpoint UK sold to some Italian firm. It closed the British factories and now all Hotpoints are imported. | ||
| Post# 610911 , Reply# 4 7/18/2012 at 08:25 (4,293 days old) by rockland1 () | ||
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Thanks for the info guys. Ed | ||
| Post# 611359 , Reply# 5 7/20/2012 at 14:15 (4,291 days old) by aegokocarat (United Kingdom) | ||
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supersuds.. the firm who hotpoint were sold to was Indesit company (formerly Indesit electrodomstici), they left one UK factory open, and that produces tumble dryers for world export (in the US hotpoint/aristons sell as splendide RV washers and dryers) Tom CLICK HERE TO GO TO aegokocarat's LINK | ||
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Post# 611935 , Reply# 6 7/23/2012 at 23:52 (4,288 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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Thanks | ||
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