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phoenix arizona ; richmond kentucky ; and fitchburg wisconsin . along with many other major prestige appliance brands sub zero follows a practice of restricting dissemination of the prices of their refrigerators . their dealers are strictly vetted and must closely follow advertising and pricing procedures supplied by the manufacturer in order to maintain the ability to distribute their products . citation needed references edit history of sub zero and wolf . archived from the original on october 6 2007 . history of sub zero . sub zero group inc. retrieved 2 june 2015 . a b history of sub zero . archived from the original on july 14 2007 . sub zero wine cooler prices and models . luxurious refrigerators . retrieved 2 june 2015 . adam green 7 february 2015 . an overview of sub zero appliances . sub zero and wolf co. retrieved 2 june 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sub zero brand & oldid 737828913 categories home appliance brandshome appliance manufacturershome appliance manufacturers of the united statescompanies based in madison wisconsinmanufacturing companies established in 1945privately held companies based in wisconsinluxury brandshidden categories articles that may contain original research from august 2012all articles that may contain original researcharticles lacking reliable references from august 2012all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles needing additional references from august 2012all articles needing additional referenceswikipedia articles needing style editing from august 2012all articles needing style editingall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2007articles with unsourced statements from june 2015 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 edit links this page was last modified on 5 september 2016 at 07 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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