Whirlpool Plans To Take Over The World!

[launderess]

Well as far as major appliances are concerned.

Forget Pinky and the Brain, this is the real deal: http://laundry.reviewed.com/news/whirlpool-reveals-plans-for-world-domination

 

[appnut]

Would be nice if products were produced here for export world over!!!

 

[iej]

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.

 

[iej]

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/pol...ble_bfca8176-4988-4415-acf9-3a4d53c19755.html

Over 2000 jobs gone in Italy already.

 

[maytagbear]

You are implying~~

that they haven't already?

Love and laughter,

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[wayupnorth]

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.

 

[arbilab]

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.

 

[tomturbomatic]

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]

 

[a440]

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

 

 

[gansky1]

Lol - I have pink chip-clips with the KA name on them.

 

[jerrod6]

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.

 

[neptunebob]

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?

 

[suburbanmd]

Tomturbomatic

Knowledge of appliances and Yiddish curses, a rare combination 

 

[toploader55]

Oy  Tom. Exactly.

 

And I hate the way can openers, knives, potato peelers etc. all have KitchenAid on them now.  And the horrible part is they're so cheaply made and fall apart.

 

 

 

[tomturbomatic]

"can openers, knives, potato peelers etc. all have KitchenAid on them now."

As my mother, aleha ha-shalom, would say, "people with low taste and no taste."

Thank you, Jay.

 

[fan-of-fans]

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.

 

[gusherb]

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.

 

[alr2903]

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.

 

[firedome]

"Rationalization"...

of product lines, as it's known in the auto industry, aka "badge engineering",
is inevitable because everything is ALWAYS about the bottom line and nothing else.