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Hotpoint

BiographyHotpoint is the UK market leading brand in washing machines, dishwashers and refrigeration as well as the overall number one in the whole domestic appliance market. For the last 2 years Hotpoint has been voted as the 'Most Trusted Brand' in the domestic appliance industry by readers of Readers Digest magazine.

Hotpoint began in the United Kingdom in the early 1900's when Earl Richardson invented a new electric iron with the heating element the length of the iron which converged to be hot at the point, hence the name of 'Hotpoint'. In 1911 the Hotpoint Electric Heating Company was formed and in 1920 an agreement was set up with General Electric (GE) of the USA to create an agency in order to sell GE branded domestic appliances in the UK. This agency was called Hotpoint Electric Appliance Company Limited (HEAC).

In 1929 HEAC joined the Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) group and in 1940 purchased a factory in Peterborough to produce refrigerators. In 1970 the GEC group bought AEI where the name was changed to Hotpoint Limited. In 1982 a new factory in Kinmel, North Wales was opened for the production of washing machines.

In 1989 Hotpoint became part of a new division of the GEC Group called 'General Domestic Appliances'

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