General is a brand of air conditioners owned by Fujitsu General Limited of Japan. Fujitsu General manufactures and markets various air conditioning units and

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under the General and

Fujitsu is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the la ...

brands in different markets. Former Australian Cricketer Mark "Tubby" Taylor has been the face of Fujitsu General Air conditioners in Australia since 1998.

India

In India, General air conditioners were manufactured and marketed by ETA General Pvt. Ltd, which was a joint venture between Fujitsu General Limited and the ETA-Ascon group based in

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. The company is headquartered in

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

. It has another manufacturing unit in

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. The company has ended its long-standing joint venture agreement with the Dubai-based ETA group and henceforth will operate under a wholly owned subsidiary Fujitsu General (India) Pvt Ltd, which was earlier known as ETA General.

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