Amica

Amica S.A.

Type| Joint-stock company

Traded as

| Template:WSE
Industry| Home appliance
Founded| 1945
Headquarters|

Wronki

Poland

Area served

| Europe

Key people

| Jacek Rutkowski (president)
Website| www.amica.pl
www.amica-group.com

Amica is a Poland -based international company. It is a global manufacturer of household appliances headquartered in Wronki, in the western-central Poland. The company produces refrigerators, washing machines and dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, electric stoves, kettles for the kitchen under the brands Hansa, CDA, Gram.

## History

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 Hausgeräteetechnik GmbH.[7]

The main sales market for Amica is 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

1. ↑ (in en) Polish Economic News. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1988. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Polish_Economic_News/JpTjAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq="Predom-Wromet+Heating+Equipment+Factory"&dq="Predom-Wromet+Heating+Equipment+Factory"&printsec=frontcover.
2. ↑ "Amica Wronki Domestic Appliances". https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/about-the-appliance-industry/manufacturer-information/2883-amica-wronki.
3. ↑ 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. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29992447/.
4. ↑ "Murata Sacco rebrands to Amica Savings and Credit as it eyes rapid expansion". Kuscco.com. https://www.kuscco.com/index.php/background/92-ticker/115-murata-sacco-rebrands-to-amica-savings-and-credit-as-it-eyes-rapid-expansion.
5. ↑ "Amica Wronki FC Club Details | First Team Squad | Soccer Base". https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=3080.
6. ↑ Amica Warsaw Stock Exchange
7. ↑ "Premiere Kundendienst" (in de-DE). https://kundendienst-info.de/premiere-kundendienst/.
8. ↑ "Poland's Amica accelerates shift to W Europe as Russia sales slump" (in en). Reuters. 22 August 2014. https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-amica-wronki-exports-idUSL5N0QP23N20140822.
9. ↑ "Amica acquires 100% of CDA Group". 1 December 2015. https://www.amica-international.co.uk/blog/amica-acquires-100-of-cda-group.
10. ↑ "Separate Report of Amica S.A. For 2018" (in cs). amica.pl. https://amica.pl/files/financialfile/annual_reports/en-_raport_roczny_jednostkowy_2018_asa.pdf.
11. ↑ "Amica buys CDA". kbbreview. 1 December 2015. https://www.kbbreview.com/227/news/amica-buys-cda/.
12. ↑ "Societe Industrielle D'equipement Moderne Sideme". https://lei.report/LEI/969500X3DR1LPUZIWA97.
13. ↑ "Amica acquires 100% of CDA Group". December 1, 2015. https://www.amica-international.co.uk/blog/amica-acquires-100-of-cda-group.
14. ↑ "О Hansa". http://hansa.md/ru/o-hansa/.
15. ↑ "Samsung приобрел польские предприятия Amica по производству холодильников и стиральных машин". https://news.samsung.com/ua/samsung-приобрел-польские-предприятия-amica-по-п.
16. ↑ "Amica to Sell Another Two Plants to Samsung | PGS Software". March 2, 2010. https://www.pgs-soft.com/blog/amica-to-sell-another-two-plants-to-samsung/, https://www.pgs-soft.com/blog/amica-to-sell-another-two-plants-to-samsung/.

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