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| 1883 | Mr. Charles Clarence Hobart builds his first engines and generators in Middletown, Ohio. |
1886 | J.C. Cochran receives the patent for the first dishwasher. |
| 1897 | The HOBART ELECTRICAL MANUFACUTRING COMPANY was founded in Troy Ohio, by the acquisition of the engine and generator factory of the HOBART family. |
1903 | HOBART builds the first food processor (a self-contained powered coffee mill). |
| 1910 | HOBART discovers the European markets: foundation of the first sales office in England |
1921 | Foundation of the first HOBART subsidiary in France |
1926 | Hobart purchases The Crescent Washing Machine Company, and enters the commercial warewashing market: the first warewashing machine carrying a HOBART label |
1930 | Foundation of the HOBART MASCHINEN GESELLSCHAFT in Hamburg, Germany. |
1934 | The company acquires the Dayton Scale Division of International Business Machines (IBM): the first computing scale. |
| 1953 | HOBART receives the patent for the first flight-type diswasher. |
| 1960 | Acquisition of the dishwashing-department of the company K. Marin, Offenburg, Germany. |
| 1980 | Production plant in Elgersweier, Germany, was newly build |
| 1981 | HOBART was integrated into DART & KRAFT |
| 1986 | PREMARK INTERNATIONAL GROUP emerged in Deerfield, Illinois. |
| 1995 | Acquisition of UNGERMANN in Wuppertal, Germany |
| 1996 | Division of PREMARK – TUPPERWARE |
| 1996 | Foundation of company group HOBART – FOSTER – UNTERMANN |
| 1997 | Acquisition of EUROTEC |
| 1998 | HOBART CORPORATION’S 100th anniversary. |
| 1999 | Integration of PREMARK into ITW |
| 2004 | Rebuilding of the plant in Elgersweier, Germany, and the removal of the head office in Offenburg, Germany to Elgersweier |