
Appliances & Consumer · 20th-century GE business · sold 2016
GE Appliances
The kitchens and living rooms of generations.
Vintage-style artistic recreation of GE's historic businesses.
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Business history
GE made household electrical products, from fans and toasters to refrigerators, through much of the 20th century.
Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky became a famous manufacturing center in the 1950s.
GE Appliances was sold to Haier in 2016 and continues to use the GE brand.
Historical references
Subsidiaries, acquisitions & joint ventures
Merged · 2016 – present
Haier ownership
GE sold its appliance business to Haier in June 2016 for about $5.6 billion.
Ownership outcome: GE Appliances is a Haier company that uses the GE brand under licence.
Source
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Major products & innovations
- ✦ Refrigerators
- ✦ Ranges and ovens
- ✦ Washers and dryers
- ✦ Dishwashers
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Heritage illustration

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Employee memories
No approved memories from GE Appliances yet. Be the first to share one.
Share your story05
GE Jokes
The sixth why
We asked the five whys. We found the root cause. Then the manager asked a sixth why.
We're still in that conference room.
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GE Garfield
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GE Motivational Quotes
No turbine was ever built by one person. Every one of those hands mattered.
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GE Legend Collectable Cards
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GE Honorable Mentions
Know someone from GE Appliances who deserves recognition — or is it your own story?
Nominate a GE legend10
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