Electrical installation Oberlind
Electrical installation Oberlind ( EIO for short ) was a state-owned company in Oberlind ( GDR ). EIO has been a brand of the Glen Dimplex Germany group since the 1990s .
history
In 1913 the first production facilities were built by the toy company H. Josef Leven . Eight years later, in 1921, Siemens-Schuckertwerke opened its Small Building II in Sonneberg , which in 1939, with 987 employees, produced installation material such as fuse elements and switches. After the Second World War , expropriation followed , with production initially continuing under the name Siemens and some of the products being sent to the Soviet Union as reparations. From 1948 the company was renamed VEB IKA Oberlind . At the beginning of the 1950s, the development and production of electrical household appliances began under the IKA brand . In addition, the company took over the production and further development of the Piko model railway. From 1958 the VEB IKA Oberlind was renamed VEB Elektroinstallation Oberlind (EIO). VEB EIO specialized in the development and manufacture of small kitchen appliances and household vacuum cleaners. The production of the Piko model railway was outsourced to VEB Piko Sonneberg in 1961 . From the mid-1960s, VEB EIO Sonneberg specialized exclusively in the production of vacuum cleaners , which were exported as export items under the EIO label to the Comecon states, but also to the EEC . The mail order companies Neckermann and Quelle sold the EIO vacuum cleaners under their own brand names. In the early 1990s, EIO Sonneberg was sold by the Treuhandanstalt to the Glen Dimplex Group, which continues to use the EIO brand name, which was already well known in Europe .
Web links
- Information about the EIO brand on the Glen Dimplex Germany website
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 13 ″ N , 11 ° 11 ′ 44 ″ E