What's New in Kitchens and Baths?

by Patrick Galvin It's hard to know who's who these days when it comes to kitchen manufacturing, particularly with regard to appliances, and to some extent cabinet and counter materials. Numerous mergers and acquisitions have changed some of the names involved, created new ones, and regrouped others. And it is hard to guess how much these changes will affect the products these names stand for. Consolidated Industries and merged it with its previous purchase Tappan, it became a major player here. This move put a lot of appliance brand names in the same stable, including Tappan, O'Keefe & Merritt, White, Westinghouse, Frigidaire, Gibson, Kelvinator, and several lesser names. But that's only half of the story. With Tappan, Electrolux obtained an entire family