
In December 2008, Indesit Company acquired the final quota of shares from General Electric for US$57m. Indesit UK has been based at Peterborough since 1 June 2003.Īt the beginning of 2007, Hotpoint completely took over Indesit and merged it into its own historic brand Ariston, creating a single entity known as ' Hotpoint Ariston', Hotpoint now existing as a branding on European-made products. 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, KY 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

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