Fisher & Paykel started in New Zealand when Olive Paykel asked her husband to import a new appliance - a refrigerator -that she had seen in the American Ladies' Home Journal. With the success of the Crosley refrigerators, washing machines made by Kelvinator quickly followed. Based on importing appliances from the United States, the company - now run by Olive's son Maurice Paykel and their son-in-law Woolf Fisher - grew quickly until the New Zealand government banned imports of manufactured products due to the currency being in such short supply in 1938.
In 2012, Haier Group bought Fisher & Paykel
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