Q:The Hotpoint Electric Heating Company (generally known simply as Hotpoint) is a British brand of domestic appliances formerly part of GEC. The brand is currently fully owned by Italy's Indesit but most UK manufacture has now ceased.There is also a Hotpoint brand in North America owned by General Electric which manufactures similar appliances but is now unrelated to Hotpoint in Europe. From 1989 to 2008 Hotpoint in the UK was 50% owned by GE of the USA. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Company