Amana (company)

Amana
legal form	Corporation
founding	1934
Seat	Benton Harbor , Michigan
Branch	domestic appliances
Website	www.amana.com

Amana is an American home appliance manufacturer based in Benton Harbor , Michigan .

history

The company was founded in 1934 by George Christian Foerstner as Amana Refrigeration Inc. in Middle Amana (Iowa) to manufacture commercial refrigerators .

In 1936 Foerstner sold his company to the regional business enterprise The Amana Society , but remained in the company's management. In 1947 the first refrigerator for private household use was manufactured. The company advertised, unusual for the time, in advertisements with celebrities such as Bob Hope , Dorothy Lamour , Groucho Marx , Gary Cooper and Phil Silvers . In 1950 Foerstner bought the company back with some investors .

In 1965, the American arms company Raytheon took over the company in order to start marketing the microwave that it had invented under the model name Radarrange from 1967 . In 1997, Raytheon sold Amana to air conditioning manufacturer Goodman Manufacturing for $ 750 million . In 2001 the Maytag Corporation of Iowa bought the company, excluding air conditioning manufacturing, for $ 325 million.

With the takeover of Maytag by Whirlpool Corporation in 2005, ownership changed again.

Web links

Collection of historical Amana newspaper advertisements , accessed February 27, 2020

Individual evidence

^ David Hudson, Marvin Bergmann, Loren Horton , The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa , 162, University of Iowa Press, 2009, ISBN 9781587297243
↑ Peter Hoehnle , Amana Colonies: 1932-1945 , page 65, Arcadia Lib., 2016 ISBN 9781531698058
↑ Amana company history , on whirlpoolcorp , accessed February 26, 2020
^ Raytheon sells Amana, other appliance units for $ 750 million , Associated Press , July 14, 1997
^ COMPANY NEWS; Maytag agrees to buy 2 Amana Businesses , The New York Times , June 6, 2001
^ Company News: Maytag agrees to buy 2 Amana businesses. In: New York Times . June 6, 2001, accessed March 1, 2020 .
^ Whirlpool to acquire Maytag , CNN Money , August 22, 2005

[1] David Hudson, Marvin Bergmann, Loren Horton , The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa , 162, University of Iowa Press, 2009, ISBN 9781587297243

[2] Peter Hoehnle , Amana Colonies: 1932-1945 , page 65, Arcadia Lib., 2016 ISBN 9781531698058

[3] Amana company history , on whirlpoolcorp , accessed February 26, 2020

[4] Raytheon sells Amana, other appliance units for $ 750 million , Associated Press , July 14, 1997

[5] COMPANY NEWS; Maytag agrees to buy 2 Amana Businesses , The New York Times , June 6, 2001

[6] Company News: Maytag agrees to buy 2 Amana businesses. In: New York Times . June 6, 2001, accessed March 1, 2020 .

[7] Whirlpool to acquire Maytag , CNN Money , August 22, 2005