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The Westinghouse Licensing Corporation (now named Wilmerding Licensing Corporation) was a
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organized subsidiary that was founded in 1998 by Westinghouse-CBS (the renamed original Westinghouse) in managing the
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assets relating to the Westinghouse trademarks produced from 1886 until 1996. The Westinghouse name and trademarks were purchased from ViacomCBS in 2021 by a new company Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Westinghouse Licensing had its headquarters in
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History

All traces of the Westinghouse name go back to the original company's roots starting in 1886 when
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founded the company in
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. After the original Westinghouse acquired CBS Inc., it set about transforming itself from a diversified conglomerate with strong industrial roots into a media giant. Starting in 1996, it began selling off many of its non-media assets. In 1997, Westinghouse acquired
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and was reorganized as the first CBS Corporation, taking on the name of the broadcasting network. In 1999, CBS Corporation sold all of its nuclear businesses to
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and Westinghouse, thus jettisoning its last significant non-media assets. Soon after, BNFL gained license rights on the Westinghouse trademarks and used them to reorganize its newly acquired nuclear assets as Westinghouse Electric Company LLC. Those companies were later sold to the Toshiba Group in 2007, then
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in 2018.


Licensing of the brand

Beginning in 1998, Westinghouse Licensing had
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the famous
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for use on a multitude of products, some of which were in similar categories to those sold by the historic version of the company. Though these products advertise the Westinghouse name, they were not manufactured by the historic Westinghouse company.


Active licensees

These were the Westinghouse licensees manufacturing products under the "Westinghouse" and " White-Westinghouse" names up until 2021: * Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, providing nuclear energy worldwide. * TECO-Westinghouse Motor Company (previously Westinghouse Heavy Industry Motor Division, HIMD), maintains original Westinghouse large electric motor designs and manufactures new motors & generators from ¼ hp to 100,000 hp. * Westinghouse Battery selling general purpose batteries, Industrial sealed lead acid batteries, and LED flashlights. *
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, formerly
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Lighting, selling light bulbs, ceiling fans, and lighting fixtures *
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, selling Westinghouse-branded electrical accessories. *
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Group, selling Westinghouse branded refrigerators, washing machines and dishwashers in Australia. *
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, selling Westinghouse-branded LCD televisions and computer monitors.


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* {{Westinghouse Branding companies of the United States Former CBS Corporation subsidiaries Garage door opener manufacturers *04