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GREE was established in Zhuhai, Guangdong, in 1989 under its former name of Zhuhai City Haili Cooling Engineering Company Limited (Chinese: 珠海市海利冷气工程股份有限公司). It was restructured and renamed GREE Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai in 1994. The company started as a nameless factory with 200 employees and annual production of less than 20,000 units.
It was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 1996. The company grew 47% in 2008, despite the 2008 financial crisis, booking $23 billion in contract sales. The company is a multinational enterprise with 70,000 employees and annual production of 65.5 million units. In April 2011, GREE announced that first-quarter net income rose 47 percent from a year earlier to 934.7 million Yuan.
From Wikipedia’s article on Gree Electric, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
