Jacuzzi

Jacuzzi is an international U.S. manufacturer of sanitary fittings and equipment, especially hot tubs, spas, bathtubs, shower enclosures, taps or faucets for the bathroom area and sanitaryware such as wash basins, toilet pans and bidets.

In the field of underwater massage or spa industry jacuzzi is a whirlpool - inventor leader. Colloquially the ( trademarked ) name Jacuzzi is used as a generic name for any hot tubs manufacturers.

The company since 2007 owned by the private equity firm Apollo Management reported last for 2006 sales of approximately 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, of which 767 million U.S. dollars on the actual plumbing area and 436 million U.S. dollars to the now no longer part of the Group pipework.

History

Based in Chino Hills, Calif., was founded in the 1910s as Jacuzzi Brothers of the seven coming from Italy Brothers Jacuzzi. This had emigrated in 1900 from her native village Valvasone in Friuli in the United States.

Aircraft

Initially the brothers jacuzzi were in the field of aeronautics and active in the aircraft and mainly producing propellers, such as the Jacuzzi used in World War toothpick and aircraft parts to entire aircraft such as the siebenplätzigen monoplane Jacuzzi J -7, the first monoplane produced in the USA with closed cabin. These were mostly used for sending letters by U.S. Postal Service and for transporting people from the San Francisco Bay Area to Yosemite National Park. After the July 14, 1921 one of the Jacuzzi brothers, Giocondo, in a test flight of a Jacuzzi J-7 was killed, the Jacuzzis of the Aviatik turned away and began to produce water pumps.

Pumpenbau

After the hot tubs were turned away from the aviation, they focused on the development and production of feed pumps for irrigation of agricultural fields and thus contributed in 1925 to the development of agriculture in California at. Developed by the Jacuzzis ground water pump has been awarded at the California State Fair in 1930 with a Gold Medal Award.

Sanitary equipment

Rheumatoid arthritis, Candido Jacuzzi son Kenneth was suffering from, Candido Jacuzzi brought to dedicate itself from the 1940s to the development of pumps in the field of hydrotherapy. This led in 1956 to the first hydrotherapy pump for medical purposes. In the 1960s, the system of Roy Jacuzzi was a representative of the third generation, as well as CEO and chairman of the board of the family business, evolving until he brought the first hot tub with jets and a fully integrated in the system pump on the market in 1968. 1969 was founded in Valvasone the Jacuzzi Europe Spa European headquarters of the Jacuzzi Group. Since then, there 's products for the European market are produced, including for Germany. In the 1970s, Jacuzzi launched the first several people offered hot tubs and spas the first.

In 1979 the family sold the company to Jacuzzi Kidde Inc. Except Roy Jacuzzi, who remained in the company, left in the succession, all family members the company. So also from the second - generation native Remo Jacuzzi Jacuzzi, who headed the local Jacuzzi facility in Brazil and founded in 1982 in North Little Rock Jason International, Inc. as a separate family.

1987 Kidde Inc. was acquired by Hanson plc. As part of a realignment of the Hanson Group comprises 34 subsidiaries including Jacuzzi Brothers Inc. were under the name of U.S. Industries eliminated from the Hanson Group, later became a U.S. Industries, in addition to the flagship brand Jacuzzi, other brands have been combined in Jacuzzi Brands renamed and brought to the market, where the company was listed until 2006 on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol JJZ before it was completely taken over by the private equity firm Apollo Management. As part of the acquisition, guided under the name Zurn Industries pipeline division was separated from the Jacuzzi Group and sold to the Rexnord Corporation.