Category: Whirlpool

Whirlpool Corporation’s board of directors, meeting in regular session today in Chicago, declared a quarterly dividend of 43 cents per share on the company’s common stock. The dividend is payable June 15, 2004, to holders of common stock at the close of business on May 20, 2004.

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR – News) today announced first-quarter 2004 net earnings of $101 million, or $1.43 per diluted share, compared to $91 million, or $1.32 per diluted share, in the same period last year.

The deputy head of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ), Sebastian Mikosz announced yesterday that three of Whirlpool’s subcontractors plan to invest between $10-20 million each in the outskirts of Wrocław in the near future.

FORMER EastEnder Patsy Palmer was in Wales yesterday to help teach men how to wash clothes. Patsy, famed for her famous “Ricckee” shriek as Bianca in the Cockney soap, has been hired by washing machine manufacturers Whirlpool.

In order to attract Whirlpool to invest in Poland, the government offered the company state aid amounting to almost half of the white-goods producer’s anticipated expenditure of EUR 132 million.

ServiceBench, Inc., the leading provider of Web-based service supply chain management applications, today announced that Whirlpool North America has processed nine million transactions through the Web-automated service supply chain system delivered by ServiceBench. The system, launched in late 20…

WARSAW, April 2 (Reuters) – U.S. appliance maker Whirlpool (nyse: WHR – news – people) will invest 100 million euros ($123 million) over two years in expanding its white-goods plant in the south-west city of Poland, the company said on Friday.

The future holds a slightly “cooler” outlook for the typical American water cooler. In fact, what once cowered in the dusty corners of doctor’s office lore has re-emerged with a sleeker, bolder and more sophisticated sense of style.

Louisville, KY, March 31, 2004 – ServicePower Field Service Solutions (FSS), a division of Annapolis, MD based ServicePower today announced it is working with Whirlpool Corporation to develop an innovative, state-of-the-art system for processing and managing warranty claims and for managing the d…

THE US company Whirlpool has picked Poland for its new Sk4 billion (€99.85) investment. Slovakia, which was also competing for the investment, thus lost to the Polish town of Wroclaw.