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They just want the brandnames and the customer base.

Give it a few years and it'll all be made somewhere much, much cheaper than the US or Europe.
Downside of this is big layoffs in Italy and elsewhere, right during a major unemployment spike in Southern Europe.
 
My 20+ year old Whirlpool kitchen appliances were made by Frigidare and Amana. My 1977 Whirlpool microwave was made by Whirlpool and still works as perfectly as new as do my gas stove, refrigerator and dishwasher. I am going to try to pick up a grammys Speed Queen wringer from a basement that supposedly works in the next week. Let you know what I find.
 
Aquisition companies-- buying (imaginary/perceived) brand reputations and stomping their cornercutting MBA boots across the lot-- typically don't fare well in the long run. Think 'Beatrice Foods' which in the 80s went around buying every brand in sight then lost control of the whole shebang in short order.

Not sure I'd worry about Whirlpool taking over the world. If they actually succeed, THEN I'd worry. Just get used to throwing away "durable goods" every 3-5 years. That is, if you weren't already. Definitely the direction the industry has taken in the 21st century.
 
If the Upton Family's treatment of Benton Harbor and the actions of their GDSOB spawn in congress are any indication of their rapacious greed and callous disregard for the rights and dignity of other human beings, I don't doubt that they will succeed in the short run. I long ago put a Sophia-style curse on them for the way that they bought KitchenAid and then destroyed the huge stock of parts that enabled quality machines to be kept operational for decades. I hope that they meet with a meisseh meshina, each one individually and each one three times. May their wealth and power grow so that they own 900 factories and each of them have nine desks in each factory and be found dead at each desk nine times. [this post was last edited: 10/7/2015-08:42]
 
Tom ~

I don't think I fully understand how you feel about Whirlpool.  Can you elaborate?  : )

 

I had no idea that Whirlpool destroyed Hobart - Kitchenaid parts!  That was a sure sign

that they had no interest in quality.  They just wanted the Kitchenaid name.  I remember

not all that long after Whirlpool bought Kitchenaid seeing a pack of plastic chip-clips with

the name in huge white lettering on them "Kitchenaid"!  I stood there holding them in disbelief!!!!  I

then bought a pack because they were on sale.  LOL!  No I really didn't.  I bought the pack of

chip-clips that had "Frigidaire" on them.

 

B

 
 
The problem I have with Whirlpool acquisitions is that they destroy the technologies of the companies they buy.  Look at many of the DW made in the USA that are Whirlpool owned companies, such as KitchenAid and Maytag.  Underneath the wash arms  frames of the machines you will find the same parts and sometimes identical methods of doing things.  No more diversity in achieving the goal.  All of the designs coming from one design center. No diversity in thought or technique.   Give it time....things never end up well when this happens.

 

Maybe things have changed but after my last terrible experience with my Whirlpool made Ka washer(on the 5th repair the guy said "KA buttons placed on Whirlpool parts that's what u got" )  I don't want any part of them.
 
But they're hideous!

One thing I don't like about Whirlpool is that some of their products are downright ugly! I was shopping for the GE Artistry range and dishwasher (Yeah, I know, not any better, but they are low priced)and the small appliance store tried to sell me Amana appliances - Maybe I would have bought them if they did not look so awful. Even the new Whirlpool logo is hideous (I liked the way they wrote it years ago with the whirlpool. I could live with Whirlpool in the laundry but do I want to look at it every day in a kitchen?
 
Tomturbomatic

Knowledge of appliances and Yiddish curses, a rare combination 
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I don't like how the appliances are all the same. It used to be, when you bought an Amana fridge, it was an Amana, and a Whirlpool was a Whirlpool. Now, the Amana is just a Whirlpool with a different name on it. I do think Whirlpool and Amana have decent looking appliances, but it would be nice to have the variety we once had. And it will likely get worse with Electrolux taking over GE.
 
Oy. That's all we need is more Whirlcrap and Electrosux. What a damn shame.

Give it another 5 years and Alliance can enter the kitchen appliance market and make a killing with a high quality line of stuff like they do with their washers and dryers.
 
Alliance would do quite well to stick with laundry products.  Maytag's goal was a full line of home appliances quality suffered when the antiquated companies they owned and  acquired were cheapened even more to compete.
 
Alliance Laundry Systems

Owns several of the largest commercial brand names in laundry appliances: Speed Queen, UniMac, Primus, Huebsch and IPSO. They are quite well off where they are and cannot see why they ever would get into domestic white goods such as ranges and ovens.

Domestic washing machines and dryers are a natural offshoot from OPL so that is understandable.

What should and one wishes would happen is for Whirlpool to give up some of the brands it acquired when it gobbled up Maytag. Chambers ranges/stoves for instance,
 
This brings to mind a book I read in the 70's. It's nominally a sci-fi guy-meets-girl, but really more a social commentary. A HS senior from mid-1970's gets thrown 100 or so years into the future. His arrival accidentally thwarts an attempt to kidnap girl. Girl's daddy runs Syncom, the largest company in the world. Kidnapping was orchestrated by TranSystem, the second largest company. Adventures ensue, taking all over the planet.

Real story is the guy's observations of society and the 'recent' history he pulls out of the girl: Starting in the late 20th century, demands on governments (worldwide) slowly began to outstrip their resources to meet them. Businesses slowly start filling in the gap. By the mid-21st century most international problem/conflicts/crises are solved by corporations with investments in the conflict area renegotiating their arrangements, thereby defusing the conflict. By the time of the story, countries' governments are more figureheads than anything else.

How/why did nobody object? Corporations made sure that each time they acted, that when they were done just enough of the bottom strata of the population in question was just enough better off that they went along with it.

No matter what a person's socio-economic status, his life was always just that tiniest bit better than his parents' that he didn't rock the boat. It was total bread & circuses (fed by media, of course) coupled with just enough real quality of life improvement that nobody rebelled. Meanwhile, everything one bought for his house was made by the same big company. Perceived differences among brands was 99% just that: perception.

It amazes me how much of it has come true. I'd like to re-read the book, but I can't remember either the title or the author :-(
 
So Whirlpool is in bed with the D.P.R.K? (Sorry, couldn't resist!)

 

To me, the brands listed on that page linked appear good, except "Indesit." That would is too close to "Indecent" to me. 
 
Reminds me of Mondolez - buying Cadbury's, Milka, Toblerone and others like France's LU biscuits and then playing with the recipes and producing horrid combinations like putting Oreos into Cadburys and Milka.
 
Sort'a like Raytheon owning Amana...

Bring on the Missiles! (Picturing in the form of an Editorial Cartoon of a crashed missile into a certain site...)

 

 

-- Dave

[this post was last edited: 10/11/2015-00:42]
 
Somehow I thought Maytag owned Garland ranges before the WP deal? Seems we are in one of the merger mania times again, Walgreens & Rite Aid come to mind.
 
Might have gone under many radars but in the last year virtually all cable companies tried to take over virtually all the other ones but were rebuffed by FCC.

It's damn seldom I get to say Fed regulators did the right thing. Wanna blame Obama? Certainly the cable operators do. But even W would say "everybody can't buy EVERYbody". (Or would he?) (Come to think of it....)

Probly 'helps' that cable operators are high among the most despised utilities. Cable is already my 3rd highest bill after rent and food. Their ads say "we don't tie you to a contract then raise prices twice a year". They just raise prices twice a year and you can go somewhere else if you don't like it.

But wait, cable operates as a regionally-franchised monopoly. There isn't 'another cable' you can buy if you don't like yours. You can go to satellite or go to hell (customers ask "what's the difference?"). Cable and satellite operators raise their prices cyclically with penny-per-dollar excuses and no recourse, contract or no.

Then there's the US prescription drug price scandal. Let's face it, the game is "what can you get away with?
 

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