ALH

Alliance Laundry Holdings Inc.

A maker of commercial washers and dryers for laundromats, coin laundries, hospitals, and other heavy users, selling brands like Speed Queen, Huebsch, and UniMac. Founded in 1908 in Ripon, Wisconsin, by two hardware-store owners who improved hand-cranked washing machines with high-speed gearing, the company launched its flagship Speed Queen brand in 1928. Today its installed base of roughly eight million machines spins in laundromats and facilities around the world.