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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Founded | 1919Neckartenzlingen, Germany | , in
Founder | Gottlob Bauknecht |
Fate | Acquired by Whirlpool Corporation in 1989 |
Headquarters | , Germany |
Key people | Jens-Christoph Bidlingmaier, chairman of the board Gerald Bormann, supervisory board chairman |
Products | Domestic appliances |
Revenue | 290 million euro (2014)[1] |
Number of employees | 400 (2014)[1] |
Parent | Whirlpool Corporation |
Website | www |
Bauknecht Hausgeräte GmbH, commonly referred as Bauknecht, was one of Germany's leading manufacturers of household appliances, and since 1989 has been a brand of Whirlpool Corporation. The headquarters of the company was in Schorndorf in Baden-Württemberg until 2006 when it relocated to Stuttgart. Whirlpool has closed its three plants in Calw (refrigerators/freezers), Neunkirchen (dishwashers) and Schorndorf (washers and dryers). Since 2012 all Bauknecht branded products have been manufactured outside Germany.[2]