A couple more interesting tidbits from the Louisville paper:
"Potential buyers of General Electric’s Appliance Division could include Electrolux, Haier, LG Electronics, Samsung and Bosch – netting as much as $6.5 billion, Wall Street analysts predicted today.
"Such buyers would crave the GE name and its massive manufacturing and distribution network. But there is also good reason to keep the appliance factory and white collar staff viable in Louisville, said Nicholas P. Heymann, of Sterne Agee in New York.
“Union workers in Louisville are making Monogram products. There is a 30 percent margin on that business. That is where a lot of the money is made,” Heymann said of GE’s high end Monogram brand.
"With 2,500 members of IUE/CWA Local 761 employed at Appliance Park, GE manufactures Monogram dishwashers, and lower end GE washing machines and top-freezer refrigerators, company spokeswoman Kim Freeman said. Appliance Park workers also make Profile dishwashers, the company’s mid-range brand."
There's also an Appliance Park Timeline at this link. Ground was broken in 1951. I think before that GE's refrigerators were made in Cleveland, or was it New York State?