Beko is a domestic appliance and electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

 brand of Arçelik

Arçelik

Arçelik A.Ş. is a household appliances manufacturer in Turkey. The Company engages in the production and marketing of durable goods, components, consumer electronics and after-sale services...

 A.Ş., owned by Koç Holding

Koç Holding

Koç Holding A.Ş. is the top industrial conglomeratein Turkey. The Koç family, one of Turkey's wealthiest families, controls the company with its headquarter in Nakkaştepe, Istanbul...

 of Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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The company's products include washing machines, TV sets and laptop computers. In 2004 Beko purchased Grundig

Grundig

Grundig AG is a German manufacturer of consumer electronics for home entertainment which transferred to Turkish control in 2004-2007. Established in 1945 in Nuremberg by Max Grundig, the company changed hands several times before becoming part of the Turkish Koç Holding group...

 and by January 2005, Beko and its rival Turkish electronics and white goods brand Vestel accounted for more than half of all TV sets manufactured in Europe.

Beko is particularly noted in Europe for its freezers and fridge-freezers which are guaranteed to operate in unheated garages, sheds and other outbuildings down to -18°c (0°F) . Most other domestic manufacturers insist that their freezers must only be used in centrally heated areas.