Continental Edison was established in 1882 by French investors in partnership with Thomas Edison with the goal of marketing electric illumination and other equipment based on Edison patents.^[1] The company has gone through several changes of ownership and was a manufacturing company up to 1971 when it stopped producing its own televisions and other home appliances, outsourcing production after that.^[2] Products sold under the name include refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines, and televisions.^[3]

Nikola Tesla started his career in the electric power industry at the newly established Continental Edison.^[4]

• 1882 – Continental Edison founded
• 1881–1958 – part of General Electric
• 1958–1971 – owned by Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE)
• 1971–1997 – owned by Thomson Multimedia
• 1997–2002 – owned by Cofidur group, a French electronic subcontractor supplier^[5]
• 1999 – diversifies into multimedia products for the TV, PC and the Internet
• December 2002, Continental Edison taken over by the AIT YALA K&S group.
• 2006, the brand was bought by the Chinese group Xoceco^[6]
• 2011 owned by the French Casino Group. It is currently distributed almost exclusively by Cdiscount^[7]