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Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd is a New Zealand based major appliance company based in East Tamaki, Auckland. more...
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Originally an importer of domestic refrigerators, the company now holds over 400 patents and bases its corporate identity on innovative design, particularly in the areas of usability and environmental awareness.
The company’s trademarked appliances include Active Smart refrigerators, AeroTech ovens, DishDrawer dishwashers, Smart Drive washing machines and Smartload top loading dryers. The company also manufactures gas and electric cooktops and front loading dryers.
Fisher & Paykel Appliances products are available in more than eighty countries worldwide. The company has manufacturing plants at Auckland and Dunedin in New Zealand, Cleveland in Australia, Huntington Beach and Clyde, USA, and Treviso, Italy.
Fisher & Paykel Appliances has purchased the Italian cookware company Elba, and the United States based cookware manufacturer Dynamic Cooking Systems.
History
Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd was listed publicly in 2001, following the separation of Fisher & Paykel Industries Ltd into Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd and Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd that same year.
Fisher & Paykel Industries
Fisher & Paykel Industries Ltd was founded in 1934 by Woolf Fisher and Maurice Paykel. The company publicly listed in 1979 with authorised capital of NZD 40 million. Initially the company was an importer of Crosley, Maytag and Pilot products; in 1938 the company began manufacturing Kelvinator washing machines under license. This followed the introduction of tariffs by the first labour government of New Zealand. In 1956 manufacturing was moved to a purpose built factory in the Auckland suburb of Mount Wellington. This facility included flexible machinery manufacturing techniques developed in tandem with the raw material suppliers, enabling Fisher & Paykel Industries to greatly increase production. The company began exporting within Australasia and East Asia around 1968. At this time the company also manufactured cabinets, sparkplugs and televisions. During the 1980’s the company became more focussed on research and development, this resulted in the development of the ECS direct drive washing machine and highly automated production lines. In 1989 the company opened its first overseas manufacturing facility in Cleveland, Australia. The company entered the European market in 1992 and by 1994 was exporting to over eighty countries.
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