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Originally Posted by drh4683
So who was Warwick Electronics? Anyone able to shed some light on this company?
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I'd been told as a kid that Sears/Warwick and Whirlpool were all in bed together. Sears owned a small percentage, with Whirlpool owning the rest.
This reference shows that Warwick Electronics Inc was a Whirlpool holding:
http://www.nber.org/antidump/FDIList.txt
and here:
"Further attempts to diversify yielded mixed results. The company's purchase of Heil-Quaker Corporation in 1964 enlarged Whirlpool's scope beyond consumer appliances to central heating and cooling equipment. But this subsidiary was sold to Inter-City Gas Corporation of Canada in 1986 as Whirlpool refocused its attention on home appliances. Its 1966 entry into the consumer electronics market with the acquisition of Warwick Electronics ended in failure ten years later, at which time the business was sold to Sanyo Electric Company."
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/compa...y-History.html
Sanyo definitely bought into the company at some point:
"The Japanese television cartel: a study based on Matsushita v. Zenith" Chapter 1 Intro has a reference to this. Google book search:
http://books.google.com/books?id=1il...d=0CBwQ6AEwBQ#
Sanyo started SMC (Sanyo Manufacturing Company) in the US in 1976 to acquire TV plants and manufacture sets in the US, skirting US anti-dumping laws. They also purchased the FISHER name at this point.
http://www.iccfed.gd.gov.cn/2003/eng...oration/19.htm
Funny how Warwick never trademarked anything - they seemed to engineer products strictly for sale/branding by Sears.
528 Warwick, 564 Sanyo, 5nDime Kmart.......
Airline in the mid-to-late 70's was Admiral made. Monkey Wards also had some Japanese-made and (80's) GE-made Airline sets.
Cheers,