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West Bend Housewares, LLC, based in West Bend, Wisconsin, produces household appliances such as breadmakers, mixers, coffee urns, slow cookers and woks. The West Bend Company , founded in 1911, was owned by Regal Ware Inc. [ 1 ] but was sold to Vernon Hills, Illinois based Focus Products Group which took the name West Bend Housewares.
The West Bend Company was a West Bend, Wisconsin, company from 1911 to 2001. The West Bend Company manufactured aluminum cookware and electrical appliances, but also made two-stroke cycle engines, including outboard boat motors. Art Ingels used a surplus West Bend engine to power the first kart. [citation needed] Clayton Jacobson II used a West ...
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Sunbeam acquired Rain King Sprinkler Company producing a popular lawn sprinkler line of the 1950s and 1960s. Meanwhile, Sunbeam continued to expand outside of Chicago.By the end of the 1970s, as the leading American manufacturer of small appliances, Sunbeam enjoyed about $1.3 billion in annual sales and employed nearly 30,000 people worldwide.
Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company is an American designer, marketer and distributor of home appliances and commercial restaurant equipment marketed primarily in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including blenders, mixers, toasters, slow cookers, clothes irons, and air purifiers.
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By 1959, employment had grown from 500 to 2,000, with an annual payroll of over $8 million. Employment peaked at 3,300 in the early 1970s at Admiral’s Galesburg Appliance Division. The company merged with Rockwell International in 1974, and in 1986 Maytag took over the Galesburg plant. In 2004, the facility was closed and manufacturing ...
Blum's , originally M. Blum & Co., established 1907; [21] store appears to have closed shortly after death of owner and founder in 1940 [22] The Bon Marché (Los Angeles) (Le Sage Brothers Co.), 430–434 Broadway, Los Angeles, opened in 1907, closed within a year [23] Boston Stores (California), HQ in Inglewood and later Carson; liquidated 1989