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Key Brand and Regional Accomplishments
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GLOBAL Recognized as one of the world’s 100 most
innovative companies by Business Week magazine and
the Boston Consulting Group.
Named to the Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index, the first equity
index based on the value of corporate intellectual property.
Named 2006 Product Innovation Leader by Innovate Forum,
a global media brand dedicated to the business value of
innovative technologies and processes.
Included in the 2006/2007 Dow Jones Sustainability World,
FTSE4Good and KLD Domini Social 400 Indexes, three of the
world’s most comprehensive reviews of sustainable business
practices.
NORTH AMERICA Began production at a new front-load
clothes washer plant and a refrigeration plant in Mexico.
Expanded production of a bottom-mount freezer refrigerator
plant in the United States.
Named one of the 100 best corporate citizens by Business
Ethics magazine for the seventh consecutive year.
Received the National Award for Ethics & Values from the
Confederación de Cámaras Industriales de los Estados Unidos
Mexicanos.
Launched the Building Blocks program to recognize an
outstanding U.S. Habitat for Humanity affiliate and its
relationship with its local community by holding a week-long
build in the affiliate’s community. The program kicked off in
Nashville, Tennessee, uniting 100 local residents with 100
Whirlpool employees and 100 volunteers from Habitat
affiliates to build 10 homes on one block.
Raised more than $4 million for the Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation since 2001, through the Cook for the Cure
program presented by KitchenAid. In addition to our support
in the United States and Canada, KitchenAid supports breast
cancer foundations in France, Germany, South Africa, Greece
and Israel.
Received the Catalyst Award for design from the Industrial
Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Business Week
magazine for the Whirlpool brand Duet fabric care system.
The Whirlpool Duet Sport fabric care system, KitchenAid
Architect II Series microwave hood combination oven and
Maytag ICE2O refrigerator received design awards from the
Chicago Athenaeum of Architecture and Design.
Received the 2007 ENERGY STAR® Sustained Excellence /
Partner of the Year Award from the U.S. Department of Energy
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; our eighth win,
a feat unmatched by any other home appliance manufacturer.
Whirlpool brand Duet washer and pedestal became the first
certified as user-friendly by the Arthritis Foundation.
Partnered with Google to provide architects and designers 3-D
models of Whirlpool and Gladiator brand products within the
Google SketchUp 3-D design and visualization tool.
EUROPE Honored with the 2005 Benefactor of the Year
award for our work with Habitat for Humanity International in
Poland. Whirlpool employees have been active in builds in the
cities of Gliwice, Poznan and Gdansk.
Recognized as a top corporate philanthropist 2006 by U.S.
Ambassador to the Czech Republic for “Children Act of the
Year,” a project supporting children across the country.
Received the International Forum Design Award for In.Home,
a concept that takes appliances to new locations in the home
and invents ways in which they can interact as a system
rather than as stand-alone appliances.
Genius built-in microwave was awarded the French Design
Institute’s Janus Design Award, the company’s third since
2002.
Whirlpool U.K.’s Titanium product range was named winner
of the Silver prize in the Appliance Innovation of the Year
category by House Beautiful.
LATIN AMERICA Elected one of 150 Best Companies
to Work For in Brazil for the 10th straight year by Exame/
Voce S.A. Guidebook.
Named Most Admired Company in the home appliances
segment in Brazil for the ninth consecutive year by Carta
Capital magazine and TNS InterScience.
Whirlpool Brazil won Modern Consumer magazine’s Excellence
in Client Service Prize 2006 in the home appliance category.
The award recognizes customer relationship excellence.
Embraco subsidiary was named one of the 100 Top
Companies from Rapidly Developing Economies by Boston
Consulting Group.
ASIA Received the HR Excellence Award at Amity
International Business School’s Global Human Resource
Summit.
Awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the India Engineering
Export Promotion Council.
Named to the Trustworthy Enterprise List by the General
Administration of Customs for our facility in Shunde, China.
Won a Reader’s Digest Trusted Brands Gold Award in
refrigeration in India.
Sponsored the week-long 2006 Jimmy Carter Work Project in
India, during which approximately 20 Whirlpool employees
joined 2,000 other volunteers to help build 100 homes in a
village near Mumbai.