| Global-Tech Appliances, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of various small electrical household appliances to brand marketers. Its product categories include kitchen appliances, garment care and travel products, floor care products, and environmental care products and accessories. The company offers a line of kitchen appliances, including blenders, breadmakers, coffeemakers, electric knives, espresso machines, food choppers, food processors, food steamers, ice cream makers, indoor grills, and rice cookers. Global-Tech Appliances offers various garment care products, including steam and dry irons and clothes steam brushes; travel products, such as travel steam and dry irons, travel hair dryers, travel hair roller sets, and voltage converters/adaptors. It offers various floor care products, including hand-held steam vacuum cleaners, upright vacuum cleaners, and extractors. In addition, the company engages in the development of a range of display-oriented products, such as flat-panel high definition televisions, incorporating plasma or liquid crystal display screens, as well as in the development of organic light emitting diode technology. It offers products through a variety of distribution channels, including mass merchandisers, specialty retailers, warehouse clubs, drug store chains, direct marketing organizations, and department stores, to customers worldwide, primarily in the United States and Europe. The company was organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands in 1991 and is based in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. |
