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Whirlpool Corporation has been honored with two iF Product Design Awards 2009, respectively, for the Whirlpool Glamour Oven and for GREENKITCHEN, a kitchen eco-system design concept. The announcement was made in Nov 08 by the iF Industrie Forum Design GmbH., and represents GREEN Kitchen's second design award in the past two months, following its Gold SPARK Award, won in October 2008. |
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2009: Whirlpool was voted Product of the Year and received the award for the 'Best Innovative Product' in the popular refrigerators category. This was based on 40,000 consumers across 36 towns in India voting Whirlpool Frost Free Refrigerators with 6th sense as the Best Innovation in the Popular Refrigerator Category. |
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2009: Hewitt ‘Best Employers in India’ 2009 Study |
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2009: Named one of the “100 Best Corporate Citizens” by Chief Responsibility Officer (formerly Business Ethics) magazine in 2009 and from 2000-2007 |
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2008: Included in the Dow Jones Sustainability, FTSE4Good and KLD Global Sustainability Indexes, three of the world’s most comprehensive reviews of sustainable business practices |
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2008: Whirlpool brand was named one of the 10 top greenest brands by U.S. consumers, according to a 2008 BrandWeek magazine survey. |
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2008: Named one of the “2008 World’s Most Ethical Companies” by Ethisphere magazine |
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2008: Whirlpool OF India” was awarded the NDTV Profit Business & Leadership Award 2008 for “The Best Consumer Durables Company. |
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2008: The year 2008-09 saw Whirlpool India achieve great milestones in our attempt to be an “Employer Of Choice”. |
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2008: The Business Today - Mercer -TNS Study – 2008.
‘Top 20 Best Companies to work for in India’ |
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Received the 2009 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence award, the company’s 10th ENERGY STAR award in 11 years. |
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Whirlpool brand was named one of the 10 top greenest brands by U.S. consumers, according to a 2008 BrandWeek magazine survey. |
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The LEAF House received Legambiente’s (Italy's most authoritative watchdog group on environmental issues) national Innovation Friendly to the Environment award. |
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Founding sponsor of the Alliance to Save Energy Efficiency Global Forum & Exposition (EE Global), a forum that brings together leaders from around the globe to forge new partnerships and develop strategies on energy efficiency |
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| Commitment To Employees Recognized |
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Named one of the “Top 20 Global Companies for Leaders” by FORTUNE magazine for focus on developing leaders within the company |
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Named one of the top 50 companies for African-American MBAs to work by Black MBA magazine |
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Named one of "The Best Companies to Work For" in Brazil by Guia Exame/Voce S.A. for the 12th consecutive year |
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Named one of the “50 Best Employers in Canada” by the Globe & Mail Report on Business Magazine |
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Named one of the “Best Companies to Work for in Mexico |
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Named one of “25 Noteworthy Companies for Diversity” by DiversityInc magazine for our excellent community philanthropy, employee-resource groups and measurement of diversity success |
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Received a score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for six consecutive years (2004-2009)
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2007: Received the 2007 Cause Marketing Golden Halo Award for Business, America's highest honor for companies and organizations that give back to the community through creative and effective cause marketing campaigns |
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2006: Whirlpool Corporation acquires Maytag and become the Worlds largest white
goods company. |
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2006: Honored with the 2006 National Award for Ethics & Values from the Confederación de Cámaras Industriales de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos . |
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2005: Received the 2005 American Business Ethics Award, which honors companies that exemplify high standards of ethical behavior in their everyday business conduct. |
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2003: A new mission statement of "Everybody creating loyal customers
for life" was adopted. |
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2002: The Aircon range was successfully launched and the Whirlpool
of India acquired 6% market share. |
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2001: Whirlpool India registered profit & sold 1.2 million
appliances. It also achieved the No.1 position in DC & FA. |
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2002: The ' Whirlpool Strategic Architecture ' was launched as
a framework to achieve the vision. The revenues of Whirlpool Corp. soared to $10.5
Billion. |
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1999: Whirlpool of India crossed the milestone of 1 million sales
of appliances. |
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1998: This year gave birth to a new company vision that says,
"Every Home Everywhere with Pride, Passion & Performance." |
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1996: Whirlpool Washing Machines Ltd. and Kelvinator India Ltd.
merged together to form Whirlpool of India Ltd. |
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1995: Whirlpool Corp. acquired majority of stake in the TVS Whirlpool
Ltd. The DC manufacturing facility of Kelvinator India was also acquired. |
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1993: First time Whirlpool became the No.1 stand-alone brand
in UK, Ireland, Netherlands and Belgium |
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1991: The company introduced and committed globally to its Worldwide
Excellence System, which is a TQM program dedicated to exceeding customer expectations.
The vision to globalize 'Whirlpool Corp'. was realized in the same year. |
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1990: Company established joint venture with Matsushita Electric
Company of Japan to produce vacuum cleaners for the North American market. |
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1989: This was a historic year since the revenues catapulted
to heights of over $6 Billion mark. Also, the joint venture with N.V.Philips of
Netherlands called Whirlpool Europe B.V. was formed to manufacture and market appliances
in Europe. |
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1987: Whirlpool tied-up with Sundaram Clayton Ltd. of India to
form TVS Whirlpool Ltd. |
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1986: The 'Kitchen Aid' division of Hobart Corporation was purchased. |
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1978: Within a decade company doubled its feat of $1 Billion
mark and reached the $2 billion revenue level. |
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1968: The Elisha Gray II Research & Engineering Center was
completed in BentonHarbor . In the same year the company's revenues crossed the
legendary $1 Billion mark for the first time. |
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1958: The company moved out of country for the first time and
invested in Brazilian appliance market through purchase of equity in Multibras S.A. |
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1957: The company was rechristened as ' The Whirlpool Corporation.' |
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1948: First 'Whirlpool' brand automatic washer with dual distribution
was introduced. It included two product lines one each was distributed through Sears
and Nineteen Hundred. |
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1929: Upton Machine Company merged with Nineteen Hundred Washer
Company of NewYork . |
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1916: First order of washers was sold to Sears, Roebuck &
Co. |
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1911: Louis Upton founded the Upton Machine Company in this year
to produce motor-driven wringer washers. |
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1908: The first Automatic washer was launched to public in late
1908, by 1900 Corporation which in 1911 was renamed to Upton Machine Company. |