Amica (company)
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| Company type | Joint-stock company |
|---|---|
| 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 | 3,000 (2024)[1] |
| 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[2] and Wromet Kitchen Products Factory.[3]
In the 1980s, products were exported to the GDR.[4] In 1992, the company was privatized and renamed Amica.[5] In the same year, Amica football club of the same name was created.[6] In 1997 it was listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.[7]
In 2001, Amica acquired the Danish rival Gram Domestic and the following year the German Premiere Hausgerätetechnik GmbH.[8]
The main sales markets for Amica are in Poland, Germany, Great Britain and Scandinavia.[9]
In 2010, Samsung Electronics bought two Amica factories in the Polish cities Poznań and Wronki for the production of refrigerators and washing machines.[10][11]
In 2012 and 2015, the company received international Red Dot Design Awards for its products in 2012 and 2015 as well as iF Product Design Award in 2015.[12][13]
The Amica Group brand portfolio also includes foreign brands: Gram, Hansa and CDA.[14] Gram is a Danish brand that has existed since 1901, acquired by Amica in 2001 and known in Scandinavia.[15] 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.[16] 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.[17] 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.[18][19]
In 2017, the company opened Poland's largest high-bay warehouse with height of 46 meters and an area of 6,500 square meters.[20]
As of 2024, the company was present in 70 countries around the world and produced 4 million household appliances annually.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Polski producent z problemami? Amica szykuje grupowe zwolnienia". pch24.pl (in Polish). 25 October 2024. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
- ^ Polish Economic News. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1988.
- ^ "Amica Wronki Domestic Appliances". 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". 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.
- ^ "Samsung приобрел польские предприятия Amica по производству холодильников и стиральных машин". news.samsung.com.
- ^ "Amica to Sell Another Two Plants to Samsung | PGS Software". pgs-soft.com. March 2, 2010.
- ^ Łukasz Potocki (14 March 2012). "Red Dot: Amika Zen najlepszy z najlepszych!". designalive.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 26 October 2024.
- ^ "Amica z prestiżową nagrodą iF DESIGN AWARD 2015". biznes.wprost.pl (in Polish). 11 March 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Tomasz Machaj (31 July 2017). "Gigant Amiki". logistyka.net.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 26 October 2024.