On December 1, 2009, Euromonitor, a world-renowned consumer market research institution, released the ranking of the world's latest refrigerators (as of December):
Haier refrigerator ranked 10.4 The brand market continues to rank first in the world.
Meiling refrigerator sales ranked third in China in 2009 (as of December).
TCL refrigerators are second-tier brands. TCL Group is a group specializing in black appliances, and white appliances are the second major.
Hisense Group acquired Kelon Electric. The group owns Hisense, Kelon and Rongsheng refrigerators, three well-known trademarks in China
, becoming the largest Chinese white goods group second only to Haier. .