About

Based in Miramar, Florida, Applica Consumer Products Inc. is a leading marketer and distributor of small household appliances. Spanning our impressive portfolio of premium and leading brands, we strive to make each product we produce with the same level of commitment to quality, durability and value.

From your kitchen counter with brands like George Foreman®, Black & Decker® Home, Juiceman®, Breadman®, Toastmaster® and Russell Hobbs™, to the rest of your home and beyond with brands like LitterMaid® and Clear2O®, Applica is dedicated to providing the best solutions for making your everyday life faster, simpler and more effective. Applica brands and products are sold throughout the world at mass merchandisers, and specialty retailers and appliance distributors.

About Merger with Salton:

In December 2007, two longstanding companies in the small household appliance business, Salton, Inc. and Applica, combined their businesses through a merger, as a result of which Applica became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Salton. In December 2009, the combined company (formerly known as Salton, Inc.) changed its name to Russell Hobbs, Inc. Applica Consumer Products, Inc. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Russell Hobbs, Inc.

About Merger with Spectrum Brands:

On February 9, 2010, Russell Hobbs, Inc. and Spectrum Brands, Inc. announced they had signed a definitive agreement to bring Russell Hobbs’ network of well-known small appliance brands into Spectrum’s operating structure to form a new global consumer products company with an estimated $3 billion in annual revenues. The transaction is expected to close in June 2010 and is subject to the approval of Spectrum’s stockholders and to other customary closing conditions. Upon the closing of the merger, Applica Consumer Products, Inc. will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Spectrum Brands.