Haier Group Corporation is a Chinese multinational home appliances and company headquartered in , . It designs, develops, manufactures and sells products including , air conditioners, washing machines, microwave ovens, mobile phones, , and . The home appliances business, namely Smart Home, has seven global brands – Haier, Casarte, Leader, GE Appliances, Fisher & Paykel, Aqua and . According to data released by Euromonitor,[1] Haier is the number one brand globally in major appliances for 10 consecutive years from 2009 In June 2015 Haier Group acquired 's appliance division for $5.4 billion. GE Appliances is headquartered in Louisville, KY. GE Appliances is a formally American appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. It is majority owned by Haier. It is one of the largest appliance brands in the United States and manufactures appliances under a house of brands[4] which include: GE, GE Profile, Café, Monogram, Haier and . Haier also owns FirstBuild, a global co-creation community and state-of-the-art micro-factory[5] on the University of Louisville's campus in Louisville, Kentucky. A second FirstBuild location is in Korea and the latest FirstBuild location is in . The company was owned by General Electric until 2015, and was previously known as GE Appliances & Lighting and GE Consumer & Industrial.

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• BRAINSTORMING PROTOTYPING FABRICATION ASSEMBLY • For a complete list of machines and specifications, visit the FirstBuild Microfactory Wiki.

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GENERAL MOTORS – SAIC, CHINESE AUTO MAKER

SAIC General Motors Corporation Limited (More commonly known as SAIC--GM; Chinese: 上汽通用汽车; formerly known as Shanghai General Motors Company Ltd, Shanghai GM; Chinese: 上海通用汽车) is a joint venture between General Motors Company and the Chinese SAIC Motor that manufactures and sells Chevrolet, Buick, and Cadillac brand automobiles in Mainland China. SAIC-GM was the top passenger vehicle producer in China in 2006, with sales of 413,400 vehicles. In 2011, SAIC- GM sold 1,200,355 vehicles in the Chinese market.[6] SAIC-GM is in 2014 the largest joint venture GM has in China.[7] Note: In February 2010, SAIC acquired an additional 1 percent stake in the joint venture for US$85 million and assistance in securing a US$400 million line of credit to boost SAIC's total share of SAIC-GM to 51%.

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