Category: Whirlpool

Whirlpool says it will cut 1,100 jobs and close a refrigerator factory in Evansville, Indiana in the USA. The jobs will be eliminated in mid-2010.

Whirlpool officials have partially confirmed reports that the company’s Fort Smith plant will cut up to 300 jobs beginning in September, but officials are reported to not be commenting on a potential temporary shutdown of the plant. Whirlpool employs about 1,350 at the plant, with about 150 of th…

Reuters have reported that Whirlpool have reported a lower second-quarter profit as sales at the world’s biggest appliance maker crumbled in the global economic slowdown. Net earnings available to common shareholders of the maker of Maytag and KitchenAid appliances fell to $78 million, or $1.04 a…

A few days ago Whirlpool started production in the first phase of Hisense Whirlpool Home Appliance Co., Ltd., a joint venture it set up with Chinese appliance maker Hisense Electric Co., Ltd. The move came in the wake of Whirlpool’s shutdown of its washing machine plant in Shanghai and the transf…

Sometimes you wonder if the marketing guys have nothing better to do with their time bar come up with these sorts of hair brained ideas. Week for this, week for that, day for this, day for that… pity we don’t get a holiday with each one as well. But our prejudice of marketing departments aside …

Whirlpool is closing its Shanghai washing machine plant and eliminating 600 jobs as part of its consolidation efforts in the Chinese market. In a statement, Whirlpool said the closure was due to market changes and washing machine production will now be moved to the Hisense-Whirlpool joint venture…

Whirlpool Romania estimates that a 10-15 percent increase in prices could be the only way some players on the market could make a profit this year. “Now, considering the volume is declining on the household appliance market, the solution is for us, as industry, to be able to raise the price, so a…

A New York law firm has issued a press release with the obvious intent of launching a class action against several manufacturers using Embraco compressors made in Brazil. The full press release is as follows:

Whirlpool, the world’s largest maker of appliances, lost a ruling in a bid to block LG Electronics from importing some of its refrigerators into the United States. A judge with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington said on Thursday Whirlpool hadn’t proven that LG infringed its pat…

Whirlpool Corp. said it received a grand jury subpoena for documents related to a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust investigation into the global compressor industry. Authorities also visited Whirlpool Corp. subsidiaries in Brazil and Italy Tuesday seeking similar information, according to a p…