Constructa is a German brand from the company '' Constructa-Neff Vertriebs-GmbH'', making

major appliance A major appliance is a non-portable or semi-portable machine used for routine housekeeping tasks such as cooking, washing laundry, or food preservation. Such appliances are sometimes collectively known as white goods, as the products were trad ...

s based in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

. The company is a part of

BSH Hausgeräte BSH Hausgeräte GmbH (; stylized as B/S/H/) is the largest manufacturer of home appliances in Europe and one of the leading companies in the sector worldwide. The group stemmed from a joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity ...

. At the beginning of the 1950s, the first German household

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with a glazed front door (the "porthole") was developed under this name and launched on the market. Constructa was in the 1950s and 1960s the leading German provider of fully automatic washing machines.

Sources

*''Die Quecke Ratinger und Angerländer Heimatblätter'' 1998 page 168 ff. * Susanne Hilger: ''«Amerikanisierung» deutscher Unternehmen: Wettbewerbsstrategien und Unternehmenspolitik bei Henkel, Siemens und Daimler-Benz (1945/49–1975)''. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, page 138 ff.

External links

Official site
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