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Company type | Joint-stock company |
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WSE: AMICA | |
ISIN | PLAMICA00010 ![]() |
Industry | Home appliance |
Founded | 1945 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Europe |
Key people | Jacek Rutkowski (president) |
Revenue | 681,000,000 Euro (2018) ![]() |
26,600,000 Euro (2018) ![]() | |
Number of employees | 3,020 (2018) ![]() |
Website | www.amica.pl www.amica-group.com |
Amica is a global manufacturer of household appliances headquartered in Wronki in western-central Poland. The company produces refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, electric stoves and kettles for kitchens under the brands Hansa, CDA, Gram.
History
[edit]Amica was founded in 1945 under the names Predom-Wromet Heating Equipment Factory[1] and Wromet Kitchen Products Factory.[2]
In the 1980s, products were exported to the GDR.[3] In 1992, the company was privatized and renamed Amica.[4] In the same year, Amica football club of the same name was created.[5] In 1997 it was listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.[6]
In 2001, Amica acquired the Danish rival Gram Domestic and the following year the German Premiere Hausgerätetechnik GmbH.[7]
The main sales markets for Amica are in Poland, Germany, Great Britain and Scandinavia.[8] The Amica Group brand portfolio also includes foreign brands: Gram, Hansa and CDA.[9] Gram is a Danish brand that has existed since 1901, acquired by Amica in 2001 and known in Scandinavia.[10] Hansa is a brand that can be found in the markets of Eastern Europe. CDA is a UK brand acquired in 2015 and recognized in distribution channels such as kitchen furniture studios.[11] In 2017, Amica bought a 60.71% stake in Sideme SA Societe Industrielle d'Equipement Moderne, one of the distributors of home appliances in France.[12] After purchasing 39.29% of the shares in August 2015, Amica already owns 100% of Sideme. The total purchase price of all shares of the French company was 5.4 million Euros, which were financed from own funds.[13][14]
In 2010, Samsung Electronics bought two Amica factories in the Polish cities Poznan and Wronki for the production of refrigerators and washing machines.[15][16]
References
[edit]- ^ Polish Economic News. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1988.
- ^ "Amica Wronki Domestic Appliances". www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk.
- ^ Erices, Rainer (November 2018). "The East-West blood trade : How the German Democratic Republic obtained foreign currency with blood products (1983-1990)". Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift. 168 (15–16): 384–390. doi:10.1007/s10354-018-0643-1. ISSN 1563-258X. PMID 29992447. S2CID 49666043.
- ^ "Murata Sacco rebrands to Amica Savings and Credit as it eyes rapid expansion". Kuscco.com.
- ^ "Amica Wronki FC Club Details | First Team Squad | Soccer Base". www.soccerbase.com.
- ^ Amica Warsaw Stock Exchange
- ^ "Premiere Kundendienst" (in German). Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ "Poland's Amica accelerates shift to W Europe as Russia sales slump". Reuters. 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Amica acquires 100% of CDA Group". Amica International. 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Separate Report of Amica S.A. For 2018" (PDF) (in Czech). amica.pl.
- ^ "Amica buys CDA". kbbreview. 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Societe Industrielle D'equipement Moderne Sideme". lei.report.
- ^ "Amica acquires 100% of CDA Group". December 1, 2015.
- ^ "О Hansa". hansa.md.
- ^ "Samsung приобрел польские предприятия Amica по производству холодильников и стиральных машин". news.samsung.com.
- ^ "Amica to Sell Another Two Plants to Samsung | PGS Software". www.pgs-soft.com. March 2, 2010.