Question: Hotpoint Electric Heating Company bought European rights to a company headquartered where?

full_context: Document 1: Norge (appliance manufacturer): The Norge brand of appliances were originally manufactured by the Norge Appliance Company, which was once a division of BorgWarner and later a division of Fedders. The Norge name was acquired in 1979 by Magic Chef which in turn was absorbed by Maytag in 1986. Maytag is now (since 2006) a part of Whirlpool Corporation.
Document 2: LG Electronics: LG Electronics Inc. ("Lucky Goldstar") (Korean: LG전자 ) is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea, and is part of the LG Group, employing 82,000 people working in 119 local subsidiaries worldwide. With 2014 global sales of USD 55.91 billion (KRW 59.04 trillion), LG comprises four business units: Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home Appliance & Air Solution, and Vehicle Components, with Starion India as its main production vendor for refrigeration and washing machines in the Indian sub-continent. The CEO of LG Electronics is Bon-joon Koo, who assumed the role of vice chairman of LG Electronics on 1 October 2010.
Document 3: Braun (company): Braun GmbH ( ; ] ), formerly Braun AG, is a German consumer products company based in Kronberg. From 1984 until 2007, Braun was a wholly owned subsidiary of The Gillette Company, which had purchased a controlling interest in the company in 1967. Braun is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, which acquired Gillette in 2005. On 16 April 2012, De'Longhi bought perpetual rights to manufacture Braun branded products from Procter & Gamble in the small appliance segment. Procter & Gamble will continue to own the Braun brand.
Document 4: The Genie Company: The Genie Company is a manufacturer of garage door openers & related accessories. It was founded in 1923 as the Alliance Manufacturing Company. At the time the company produced a broad line of consumer, industrial and military products. In May 1954, the Alliance Manufacturing Company first produced its own garage door opener and called it Genie. In 1983 the company entered the home and shop vacuum market, and in 1985 it changed its name to Genie Home Products. Overhead Door Corporation purchased the company in 1994. The Genie Company is headquartered in Mt. Hope, Ohio. The company distributes its openers & accessories through professional dealers and retailers throughout the United States and Canada. The company President is Mike Kridel.
Document 5: Alliance Laundry Systems: Alliance Laundry Systems LLC is a provider of commercial laundry systems. The company designs, manufactures, and markets a line of commercial laundry equipment under various brands in over 100 countries. Among the company’s products are washers, drying tumblers and ironers for the coin laundry, multi-housing laundries, institutional laundries and laundries for consumer residences. Alliance Laundry Systems manufactures products under the brands Speed Queen, Cissell, Huebsch, IPSO, and UniMac. The company was founded in 1908 and is based in Ripon, Wisconsin.
Document 6: Hotpoint: The Hotpoint Electric Heating Company (generally known simply as Hotpoint) is an American and European brand of domestic appliances. Ownership of the brand is split between the American company Whirlpool, which has European rights, and Chinese company Haier, which has North American rights since its purchase of GE Appliances.
Document 7: Sears Holdings: The Sears Holdings Corporation is an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. It is the owner of retail store brands Sears and Kmart, and was founded after the latter purchased the former in 2005. Sears Holdings also owns the brands Kenmore and DieHard. A sale of Craftsman to Stanley Black and Decker occurred in March of 2017. Sears retains the rights to sell Craftsman tools for 15 years from the date of sale through the purchase of tools from their established suppliers. Sears Holdings operates 1,503 retail locations under the mastheads of Sears, Kmart, and their subsidiaries, such as auto centers and pharmacies, in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam. As of 2014, it is the 18th-largest retailing company in the United States.
Document 8: Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores: Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc. is an American retail company that sells home appliances, lawn and garden equipment, apparel, mattresses, sporting goods and tools. The company has four subsidiary store formats: Sears Hometown, Sears Outlet, Sears Hardware and Appliance, and Sears Home Appliance Showrooms. Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores is based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores was founded on April 23, 2012. The company was spun off from Sears Holdings in 2012.
Document 9: H. H. Gregg: Gregg Appliances, Inc., branded as hhgregg, was an American publicly owned and operated retailer of consumer electronics and home appliances in the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast United States, operating stores in 20 states including Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Following the company's bankruptcy, the brand was purchased by Valor LLC, for $400,000, and in August 2017, was revived as an online business.
Document 10: Louisville Gas &amp; Electric: Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) is a utilities company based in Louisville, Kentucky. A subsidiary of PPL Corporation through the LG&E and KU Energy subsidiary, LG&E serves over 350,000 electric and over 300,000 natural gas customers, covers an area of 700 square miles (1800 km²), and has a total regulated electric generation capacity of 3,514 megawatts.
Document 11: The Hoover Company: Hoover was an American vacuum cleaner company that started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-20th century it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the "Hoover" brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Hoover Company in the United States was part of the Whirlpool Corporation but sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries for $107 million. Hoover UK/Europe split from Hoover U.S. in 1993 and was acquired by Candy, a company based in Brugherio, Italy. It currently uses the same Hoover logo Techtronic uses outside Europe with the slogan "Generation Future".
Document 12: GE Appliances: GE Appliances, formerly known as GE Appliances & Lighting and GE Consumer & Industrial, along with GE Appliances, when owned by General Electric (GE), is an appliance company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky and owned by Haier Group. It is one of the largest appliance brands in the United States. The company encompasses the appliance brands of GE, Profile, Cafe, Monogram, and Hotpoint. GE Appliances includes wholly owned subsidiary FirstBuild, a global co-creation community and state-of-the-art microfactory located in Louisville, Kentucky.
Document 13: Techtronic Industries: Techtronic Industries Company Limited (), Techtronic or TTI, is an investment holding company based in Hong Kong. Its products include Milwaukee, AEG (AEG Powertools, licensed from Electrolux), Ryobi, Homelite, Hoover US, Dirt Devil, and Vax. TTI employs over 20,000 staff and in 2014 had worldwide annual sales of US$4.8 billion. Subsidiaries include AC (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, Baja, Inc., Homelite Consumer Products, Inc., Hoover Inc., One World Technologies, Inc. and Sang Tech Industries Limited.
Document 14: General Electric: General Electric (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. As of 2016, the company operates through the following segments: Aviation, Current, Digital, Energy Connections, Global Research, Healthcare, Lighting, Oil and Gas, Power, Renewable Energy, Transportation, and Capital which cater to the needs of Financial services, Medical devices, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Software Development and Engineering industries.
Document 15: Consumer electronics: Consumer electronics or home electronics are electronic (analog or digital) equipments intended for everyday use, typically in private homes. Consumer electronics include devices used for entertainment (flatscreen TVs, DVD players, video games, remote control cars, etc.), communications (telephones, cell phones, e-mail-capable laptops, etc.), and home-office activities (e.g., desktop computers, printers, paper shredders, etc.). In British English, they are often called brown goods by producers and sellers, to distinguish them from "white goods" such as washing machines and refrigerators. In the 2010s, this distinction is not always present in large big box consumer electronics stores, such as Best Buy, which sell both entertainment, communications, and home office devices and kitchen appliances such as refrigerators. Consumer electronics stores differ from professional audio stores in that the former sells consumer-grade electronics for private use, whereas the latter sells professional-grade electronics designed for use by audio engineers and audio technicians.
ground_truth: Louisville, Kentucky