Frigidaire
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Frigidaire Appliance Company is the American consumer and commercial home appliances brand subsidiary of multinational company Electrolux, a Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Stockholm.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Frigidaire Appliance Company
- Company.logo
- Frigidaire.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 250px
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.foundation
- (as Guardian Frigerator Company)Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
- Company.location
- Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
- Company.key_people
- Keith McLoughlin (CEO)
- Company.industry
- Major appliances, small appliances
- Company.products
- Clothes washers and dryers, refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, ranges, room air conditioners, dehumidifiers, microwave ovens
- Company.parent
- Electrolux
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Automatic washers
- Refrigerators
- Air conditioners
- Manufacturing
- Recalls and reliability issues
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- BBB rating
- In common Culture
- See also
- References
- External links
Frigidaire Appliance Company is the American consumer and commercial home appliances brand subsidiary of multinational company Electrolux, a Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Stockholm.
Frigidaire was founded as the Guardian Frigerator Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and developed the first self-contained refrigerator, invented by Nathaniel B. Wales and Alfred Mellowes in 1916. In 1918, William C. Durant, a founder of General Motors, personally invested in the company and in 1919, it adopted the name Frigidaire.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frigidaire” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.