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by rcyeh 878 days ago
GE no longer owns or operates the GE Appliances business. Haier bought GE Appliances in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances

2 comments

Haier is a remarkable company. It's not an accident that GE appliances took off after Haier purchased it.
It's darkly amusing that, at least for me and others on this thread, keeping the "GE" brand label is probably costing them sales. I also wouldn't even glance at a GE-branded home appliance if I were in the market, on the assumption it was cost-cutting trash, but if it's true that a different company has bought the brand and is making good stuff under it, now suddenly I might be interested. Which is the opposite of how buying the rights to a "classic" brand is supposed to work.
My 2020 GE dishwasher broke after less than a year, and they claimed it had been more than a year so I wouldn't be covered by warranty. Fortunately I had an email receipt, but it certainly soured me on anything labeled GE.
Haier has rebranded the top-of-the-line as "Café". My Café range has absolutely no GE branding on it. The most charitable interpretation I have for that is that they are looking to the future (2056) when their right to use the GE brand expires.
We needed a ventless dryer because the vent our dryer was using was incredibly illegal. The only ones sized for a family of 6 available in the US were GE branded. The thing works great, but I would have bought any other brand if it were available.
Right, they are only good because the original GE has nothing to do with them now.