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GE Appliances was originally a part of General Electric, a company which began marketing a full roster of heating and cooking products in 1907. [11] In January 2004, it became part of GE Consumer & Industrial when GE Consumer Products (founded in 1905) merged with GE Industrial Systems (founded in 1930) to form GE Consumer & Industrial.
Sub-Zero was founded as the Sub-Zero Freezer Company on August 20, 1945 by Westye F. Bakke in Madison, Wisconsin. [2] In 2000, it acquired the domestic appliance line of the Wolf Range Corporation, [3] a California-based manufacturer of professional-style ranges, cooktops and grills for both home and commercial use.
Commercial refrigerator and freezer units were in use for almost 40 years prior to the common home models. The freezer-over-refrigerator style had been the basic style since the 1940s, until modern, side-by-side refrigerators broke the trend. A vapor compression cycle is used in most household refrigerators, refrigerator–freezers and freezers.