Translations:Der Standort Berlin/3/en
Siemens integrated the Berlin home appliance plant into BSH[1] in 1967. As part of standardizing the production and sales structures at BSH, the product range was streamlined and efforts were made to achieve synergy effects with other plants.[2] Siemens therefore passed on refrigeration appliance production in Berlin to Bosch in Giengen and concentrated instead on manufacturing washing machines, production of which, in turn, was discontinued in Giengen.[3] The washing machine plant in Berlin made a significant contribution to the success of BSH. In the 1980s, the Berlin plant had more than 3,000 employees. The broad production range covered front and top loaders, as well as washer-dryers and dryers. After the fall of the Berlin wall, the general conditions at the Berlin production site changed significantly. Production in Berlin was ultimately no longer economically viable and was discontinued in 2012. At the same time, as of 2011, Berlin changed from a production to a development location. The production of high-quality washing machines continued just 40 kilometers away, at the Nauen plant opened in 1994.
- ↑ BSH was founded in 1967 as Bosch-Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH - BSHG for short. In 1998, the name was changed to BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, with the short form BSH. Since the sale of the Siemens shares in BSH to Robert Bosch GmbH the company’s name is now BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, but still BSH for short.
- ↑ Susanne Hilger: „Amerikanisierung“ deutscher Unternehmen: Wettbewerbsstrategien und Unternehmenspolitik bei Henkel, Siemens und Daimler-Benz (1945/49-1975), Stuttgart 2004, S. 139.
- ↑ Hilger: "Amerikanisierung" deutscher Unternehmen, page 139. BSH Corporate Archives, Schema BSHG Version 4.83 (BSH_Zeitstrahl_1966_bis_1962_erhalten_v_Peschl_TR).