Editing Hotpoint (section)

===Indesit===
GEC was restructured into [[Marconi plc]]. from which [[Indesit|Indesit Company]] (''then called Merloni Elettrodomestici'') took over and then Indesit was bought out by Hotpoint on 21 December 2001 for £121m.<ref name="Merloni GDA (Hotpoint) acquisition">{{cite news | url=http://www.indesitcompany.com/inst/en/press_room/press-releases-detail.action?id=213 | publisher=Indesit Company | title=Merloni Elettrodomestici completes GDA (Hotpoint) acquisition | date=8 March 2002 | access-date=9 December 2015 | archive-date=4 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104130/http://www.indesitcompany.com/inst/en/press_room/press-releases-detail.action?id=213 | url-status=dead }}</ref>  At this point, Hotpoint employed around 7,000 people at its four sites in the United Kingdom, three of which later closed. Indesit UK has been based at Hotpoint headquarters in [[Cambridgeshire|Peterborough]] since 1 June 2003.
In 2005, Merloni Elettrodomestici rebranded to become Indesit Company.

At the beginning of 2007, Indesit launched the group's new brand architecture, Hotpoint, and combined with Ariston to form the Hotpoint-Ariston brand.
 
In December 2008, Indesit acquired the final quota of shares from General Electric for US$57m.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.indesitcompany.com/inst/en/investor/comunicati_finanziari/comunicati-finanziari-detail.action?id=1199 | publisher=Indesit Company | title=Indesit Company acquires final GDA (Hotpoint) quota from General Electric | date=23 December 2008 | access-date=26 December 2008 | archive-date=1 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151201211150/http://www.indesitcompany.com/inst/en/investor/comunicati_finanziari/comunicati-finanziari-detail.action?id=1199 | url-status=dead }}</ref> From the end of 2011, Indesit rolled out the Hotpoint brand name across Europe, replacing the names Ariston and Hotpoint Ariston.