While GE does make Kenmore products for Sears, it does not make the washing machines. GE is mainly the manufacturer of Kenmore ranges.
Whirlpool makes washing machines, dishwashers, and refrigerators that bear the Kenmore badge. In addition to Whirlpool-branded appliances, the company also manufactures Amana, Jenn-Air, KitchenAid, and Maytag kitchen and laundry appliances.
Kenmore is an American brand of household appliances sold by Sears, The brand is owned by Transformco, an affiliate of ESL Investments. As of 2017, Kenmore products are produced by manufacturers including Whirlpool, LG, Electrolux, Panasonic, Cleva North America, and Daewoo Electronics.
You may not know this, but Kenmore does not manufacture its own appliances. The appliances are manufactured by many other companies, like Whirlpool and GE. To figure out the manufacturer, you need only look at the model number.
Most top-freezer Kenmore fridges are made by Electrolux, and are similar to Frigidaire models. Most side-by-side and some inexpensive French door models are made by Whirlpool, while nearly all high-end French door and some side-by-side models are made by LG.
Recognized as a top appliance brand for 100 years, Kenmore brings a new level of performance with appliances that deliver time savings, convenience and great results. From quickly cooling drinks to laundry loads completed in less time, Kenmore is the most awarded brand in the industry.
Kenmore. The Kenmore Appliances brand is owned by Sears but manufactured by various appliance makers. The brand has a long history of over 100 years, having launched in 1913 originally on sewing machines. Appliances include washers, dryers, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, and freezers.
It's part of the global corporation Haier Group, which has six appliance brands. GE makes refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, washers, dryers, water filtration systems, air conditioners, and water heaters.
General Electric (GE) is a multinational conglomerate that manufactures products to serve many industries, including renewable energy, aviation, healthcare, and appliances. The appliances division of GE was purchased by the Chinese-owned Haier company in 2016.
At present, Whirlpool still makes Kenmore appliances, although this could change as time goes on. Until then, you can expect to find your favorite Kenmore washing machines on sale at Sears, and other online retailers, manufactured by Whirlpool.
A technology patented by LG Electronics in the cooling sector will be used by GE Appliances, thanks to an agreement between the two companies. LG, in fact, is licensing its patented refrigerator door-ice making technology for use in refrigerators sold by GE Appliances, which Haier acquired in 2016.
GE Appliances is an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky. It has been majority owned by multinational home appliances company Haier since 2016.
Kenmore-brand appliances: at least some models are made in USA. Available from Sears and KMart. (Sears is a retailer, not a manufacturer, so Kenmore washers and dryers are manufactured by many different companies, including Amana, Frigidaire, GE, Jenn-Air, LG, and Whirlpool.
Michigan-based Whirlpool (which also owns Maytag and KitchenAid) makes many of the best performing wall ovens on the market.
LG Electronics USA Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $48 billion global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications.
Frigidaire, which is owned by Sweden's Electrolux, produces dishwashers for both brands at their Kinston, North Carolina, plant. Another factory in Anderson, South Carolina, builds 15- to 18-cubic foot top-freezer refrigerators and premium wine coolers. But all other refrigerators are built in Juarez, Mexico.
Made in America
Behind every one of our appliances is the work of 13,600 dedicated U.S. employees. From refrigerators to dishwashers, ovens to ranges, washers to dryers and air conditioning units to water heaters, many of our products are Made in America at our nine manufacturing facilities.
AB Electrolux of Sweden, the parent company of the U.S. brands Electrolux and Frigidaire, has purchased GE Appliances for $3.3 billion.
GE Appliances: Now, despite rumors recently pushed in viral social media posts, General Electric has not been sold itself to Chinese interests. But GE's appliance division was indeed sold, in 2016, to the Chinese tech company Haier.
While its true that Haier purchased GE's appliance business for $5.4 billion, Haier only purchased GE's appliance unit, not the entire company, as suggested in the claims. The transaction also took place in 2016, not in 2021.
GE parted ways with its century-old Appliances business today, selling the unit to Haier for $5.6 billion.
Kenmore. Kenmore launched in 1913, selling sewing machines. By the start of this century, it had become one of the biggest appliance brands in the US and was sold exclusively at Sears. As Sears began to collapse, the brand came under pressure.
The company had 3,500 Sears and Kmart stores when they merged in 2005. There are fewer than 1,000 today. Fewer locations are selling Kenmore products, and customers are concerned about Sears' long-term future.
Sears founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to sell watches by mail order. He relocated his business to Chicago in 1887, hired Alvah C. Roebuck to repair watches, and established a mail-order business for watches and jewelry.