During the next several weeks there will be a transition to Daewoo and Guangdong Midea for Kenmore appliances (soon to be formerly) manufactured by Whirlpool. Whirlpool products no longer being available in our stores and on our site is Part 1. Whirlpool concluding their partnership and the manufacture of Kenmore appliances is Part 2, which will soon unfold.
The first Chinese-sourced Kenmore washers, dryers, dishwashers and refrigerators supplanting Whirlpool-souced products should arrive to stores by the first couple of weeks in Jan. and should be in full force by March.
Daewoo is already producing a few Kenmore appliances: a dishwasher, a slide-in range and a couple of refrigerators, most of which are Kenmore Elite. They will just expand across the board: low end, mid-range and high end, since the loss of Whirlpool would leave such a giant hole otherwise. Just about every dishwasher will soon be Daewoo-sourced. Refrigerators will be a mix of Electrolux, Daewoo, Midea, LG and Samsung.
Electrolux will continue to manufacture most of our freestanding ranges, slide/drop-ins and all of our wall ovens at this time.
GD Midea will be replacing the bulk of the top load Kenmore pairs that will soon no longer be sourced by Whirlpool. LG will fill the higher-end niche for Kenmore Elite top loaders and will continue to produce Kenmore front load machines as they do now.