Miele
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Miele is a manufacturer of high-end domestic appliances
Major appliance
A major appliance, or domestic appliance, is usually defined as a large machine which accomplishes some routine housekeeping task, which includes purposes such as cooking, or food preservation, whether in a household, institutional, commercial or industrial setting...

, commercial equipment and fitted kitchen
Kitchen
A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation.In the West, a modern residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator and kitchen cabinets arranged according to a modular design. Many households have a...

s, based in Gütersloh
Gütersloh
Gütersloh is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a district of the same name and has a population of 96,320 people.- Geography :...

, Germany
Germany
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. Miele has always been a family-owned and -run company, founded in 1899 by Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann.

History

Miele's first products were a cream separator, butter churn, and tub washing machine, under the Meteor brand. Carl Miele supervised manufacturing personally, and Reinhard Zinkann apprenticed and handled finances and sales.

The Míele trademark was used very early on and appeared consistently on all machines, nameplates, printed materials and advertising produced by the company. From the mid-1920s, great importance was attached to the trademark of a sloping dash as the dot on the "i".

The trademark has remained unchanged apart from three minor "face-lifts" to reflect contemporary tastes. A survey by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany's leading daily newspapers, found that the "i" alone was sufficient to identify the Miele brand.

Miele exports products to many global markets and is represented in 37 countries. Miele's expansion into the United States
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 came in 1983, when they established corporate headquarters in Somerset, New Jersey
Somerset, New Jersey
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. They later relocated to a Michael Graves
Michael Graves
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 designed headquarters building in Princeton
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 in March 1999. Currently products are manufactured in Germany, the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 and Romania
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 and shipped to the United States, where there are showrooms in ten states.

Products

Miele currently produces domestic appliances including laundry appliances; vacuum cleaners; dishwashers; rotary irons; built-in convection, steam, and speed ovens; hobs; cooker hoods; freestanding and built-in refrigerators, freezers, and wine coolers; and coffee systems. The company also produces commercial laundry equipment including wet cleaning machines, lab glassware washers, dental disinfectors, and medical equipment washers.

Miele's testing of their products is unbeatable in this market and equipment is built to last for at least 20 years.

Miele was presented with an award in Munich
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 on February 7, for being the most successful company in Germany in 2007. In the Best Company category, Miele beat last year's winner Google
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, which placed second, and also Porsche
Porsche
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, which came in third.

Rankings for this Best Brands prize are the result of representative market research covering such key criteria as current economic market success and brand recognition and popularity among consumers. Miele was recognized as Best Company and also achieved a top-five place in the category Best Product Brand. Miele also was honored as Best Domestic Appliance Brand in the UK by Which? in 2007 and again in 2008, being only one of two brands to win twice in a row. They have since won again in 2010.

In North America, Miele is marketed as a high-end major appliance
Major appliance
A major appliance, or domestic appliance, is usually defined as a large machine which accomplishes some routine housekeeping task, which includes purposes such as cooking, or food preservation, whether in a household, institutional, commercial or industrial setting...

 brand. They compete against brands such as Kuppersbusch, Gaggenau
Gaggenau Hausgeräte GmbH
Gaggenau Hausgeräte GmbH is a German manufacturer of high-end home appliances. The company won at the 2008 IF Design Awards in every category in which it had nominations....

, Fagor
Fagor
Fagor is a large domestic and commercial appliance manufacturer based in the Basque Country, Spain. It is run by the Mondragon Corporation and is one of the fastest growing businesses in European Union...

, Viking Range
Viking Range
Viking Range Corporation is a privately held company that manufactures ultra high-end professional kitchen appliances for home use. Viking originated the "professional" segment of kitchen appliances with its introduction of the first professional-grade range for home use in 1987...

, and Thermador
Thermador
]Thermador is part of BSH Home Appliances Corporation, a fully owned subsidiary of BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, the third largest appliance manufacturer in the world...

.

Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc...

 was the owner of a Miele washing machine, and publicly praised the firm's design philosophy.

The Best Company winner is determined based on the GfK Corporate Reputation measuring method. GfK is the leading market-research institute in Germany.

Miele positions itself at the upper end of the market for domestic appliances.

Slogans

Miele's motto is Immer Besser, German
German language
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for "Forever Better", "Always Better" and "Better and Better". Its slogan in the Netherlands has long been Er is geen betere (there is none better).

External links

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