founded san antonio texas 1975 1975 founder harold goodman headquarters houston texas us area served united states canada key people takeshi ebisu ceo revenue 2.6 billion 2013 number of employees 5 000 parent daikin website www.goodmanmfg.com goodman global is a member of the daikin group the world s largest manufacturer of hvac products and systems . the company manufactures residential and light commercial heating and cooling systems . the company was founded in 1982 and is based in houston texas . goodman operates 4 major factories ; two are located in houston tx one in fayetteville tn and one in dayton tn . current major manufactured products are residential split air conditioners and furnace packaged terminal air conditioners residential and light commercial packaged ac rooftops vrv vrf systems and flex ducting . goodman is currently building a 417 million campus in the west houston area . the new campus will include one of the largest and most technologically advanced hvac manufacturing facilities in the country . 1 history edit goodman was founded by harold v. goodman in 1975 as a manufacturer of flexible air ducts and plastic blade registers . in 1982 the company acquired janitrol and entered the hvac market expanding its product offering in 1986 to include gas heating products . harold goodman died in 1996 and was succeeded by frank h. murray who became chairman and ceo in april 1996 . in 1997 murray initiated and spearheaded the goodman acquisition of 2 raytheon appliances the predecessor of amana corporation a manufacturer of appliances and hvac units . four years later in 2001 goodman separated its appliances business from its hvac business and would sell the appliances business to maytag corporation . 3 in 2004 goodman was acquired by apollo management a private equity firm for approximately 1.43 billion . 4 just a year and a half later in april 2006 goodman completed an initial public offering listing on the new york stock exchange . 5 in october 2007 goodman agreed to be acquired by hellman & friedman a san francisco based private equity firm in a 1.8 billion transaction . 6 in august 2012 hellman & friedman agreed to sell goodman global to japan s daikin industries ltd for 3.7 billion . references edit http www.bizjournals.com houston news 2015 01 07 major hvac manufacturer to build 417m houston.html http www.nytimes.com 1997 07 15 business sale to remove raytheon from consumer appliances.html maytag gets approval to purchase amana a rival . new york times july 14 2001 apollo to buy heating and air conditioning concern . new york times november 20 2004 stock offerings this week . new york times april 3 2006 maker of heating systems is bought for 1.8 billion . the associated press october 23 2007 how goodman global s deal got done . new york times february 14 2008 external links edit goodman manufacturing company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title goodman global & oldid 744289391 categories cooling technologycompanies established in 1975hvac manufacturing companiesmanufacturing companies based in houstonprivate equity portfolio companiesapollo global management companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 october 2016 at 09 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view