Cuisinart
Brought the food processor to America.
Status: Watchlist
- Founded
- 1971
- Website
- cuisinart.com
- HQ
- USA
- Manufacturing
- China
- Ownership type
- PE-owned
- Parent
- American Securities (Conair)
- Acquired
- 2021
- Status since
- 2026-07-13
Ownership
Conair bought it out of bankruptcy in 1989 for $27M. PE firm American Securities acquired Conair in May 2021.
Why Watchlist
December 2016: the largest kitchen appliance recall in CPSC history, about 8 million food processors with cracking blades, 69 reports of fragments in food. PE era evidence of cuts is so far anecdotal.
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