Electrolux Headquarters

[ronni]

I found this information in an eBay listing and thought I'd share:


"Home office 235 east 42nd street New York 17, Boxes also have this address which is

now Pfizer world headquarters"


That also makes me wonder if anyone has a list of all the Electrolux/Aerus corporate headquarters and regional headquarters and the years (actual or approximate) of their functions as such. Those that have a lot of manuals could easily check.

 

[tig21er]

Executive

offices for Electrolux under Consolidated Foods was 2777 Summer Street, Stamford , Connecticut 06905. This came off the Introduction folder for the first upright in 1977.

 

[tig21er]

When

the 1205 was introduced the address was
235 East 42nd Street
New York, N.Y. 10017 and was division of Consolidated Foods.
When Electrolux offices went to Atlanta the address was;
2300 Windy Ridge Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia 30339
Electrolux Canada was at 2470 Milltower Court , Mississauga (Ontario) L5N 6H3 at the same time as above

 

[tig21er]

Current

addresses are;
Aerus
5956 Sherry Lane , Suite 1500
Dallas , Texas 75225

3480 Laird Road , Suite 2-7
Mississauga,On L5L5Y4

 

[electrolux137]

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The address for Electrolux's first U.S. plant (founded in 1933):

51 Forest Avenue
Old greenwich ct 06870

The plant was razed in 1985. There's now a luxury condominium development on the site. If you look at the google map below and compare it with the color illustration from the Model LX instruction manual you can see where the plant was located by comparing the location of the railroad tracks.

The advertisement for a tool and die maker is from "The Hour," a local newspaper in Norwalk, Connecticut. The issue date is October 20, 1982.

 

[electrolux137]

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The address for Electrolux's first U.S. plant (founded in 1933):

51 Forest Avenue
Old Greenwich, Connecticut

The plant was razed in 1985. There's now a luxury condominium development on the site. If you look at the google map below and compare it with the color illustration from the Model LX instruction manual you can see where the plant was located by comparing the location of the railroad tracks.

The advertisement for a tool and die maker is from "The Hour," a local newspaper in Norwalk, Connecticut. The issue date is October 20, 1982.

 

[paul]

1931 Relocation

from the NYT Apr 1931 edition ...

 

[caligula]

In addition to 235 42nd Street In New York,

and the factory in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Electrolux also had offices in San Francisco. The location was 417 Montgomery Street.

 

[paul]

Thanks, Alex. Here's a portion of a 2015 article about the Electrolux Corporation plant in Old Greenwich along with some accompanying photo's from 1948 and presumably the '60s or '70s (that you have maybe seen):

GREENWICH TIME - June 13, 2015


White-collar Greenwich was built on a foundation of heavy labor
Robert Marchant


The factory that lasted the longest in Greenwich was the one that produced an innovative line of vacuum cleaners. It seemed a fool’s endeavor to start a business in the depths of the Great Depression, but a group of European investors under the leadership of Gustaf Sahlin, a Swedish businessman, brought Electrolux to these shores in late 1933. The company established its first American plant in Old Greenwich, occupying buildings previously owned by a tool and lathe company, and before that, the Welte-Tripp Pipe Organ Company.

Some 21 million vacuum cleaners came off the assembly line at the plant off Forest Avenue. Local residents could feel the ground shake when the heavy turbines started up in the morning, and they knew not to drive anywhere near the plant during shift-changes.

The impractical lay-out of the factory, along with usual difficulties associated with running a major factory in the Northeast, eventually made the operation unsustainable.

There was sense of sadness and loss when the last factory in town finally closed.

“It’s sort of like family here,” said a worker, Frank Ponske, when the plant shut down for good on June 1, 1985.

There were definite costs associated with the industrial operations in Greenwich — children as young as 13 working in the plants, a substantial number of deaths and injuries. The environmental toll was also considerable — old-timers can recall the stench coming off the Byram River that forced people indoors, and the pollution emanating from the coal-burning plants was fearsome.

Despite those costs, the plants propelled the nation forward. Looking at the red-brick remnants they left behind, one can almost feel the ground shake like distant thunder from another era.