Magic Chief Appliances

John Ringen, who was an immigrant to the US, started a tin shop in St. Louis Missouri in the 1850s. His business did very well and he took on a partner in 1870 by the name of George Kahle. Kahle had immigrated to the US in 1867. Their business sold cooking stoves and washing machines. George Kahle then persuaded his brothers in laws, Louis and Charles Stockstrom to open a shop in order to make stoves in 1881. The four owners then divided into two corporations, the Quick Meal Stove Company and the Ringen Stove Company.

While Quick Meal produced the stoves, Ringen Stove handled all of the output of Quick Meal's production. By the early 1890s, the tremendous expansion of these two companies resulted in the merger with a number of other stove companies that were located in Cleveland, Chicago, and St. Louis and they formed the American Stove Company (ASC) in 1901. In 1914, American Stove developed the first device that controlled the temperature in an oven and introduced the brand name of Magic Chef in 1929. The name Magic Chef ultimately became so popular worldwide that in 1951 ASC renamed itself to Magic Chef. The company was well known for its gas stoves. If you still have a Magic Chef appliance that isn't working, call Orange County Magic Chef Appliance Repair to have it repaired.

Magic Chef merged with the Food Giant Markets of California in 1957. It was bought by Dixie Products, a small stove company located in Cleveland, Tennessee in 1958. The company became one of the largest industrial companies in the US and it was bought by the Maytag Corporation in1986. Magic Chef also made home furnaces but that operation was bought by the Lennox International. In 2006, the Whirlpool Corporation bought the Maytag Corporation. If your Magic Chef appliance doesn't work any longer, you need to call Orange County Magic Chef Appliance Repair for repairs to that appliance.