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Whirlpool to cut 216 jobs, close Benton Harbor plant
WSBT TV South Bend IN ^ | 6-1-10 | WSBT

Posted on 06/01/2010 6:14:35 PM PDT by Paul46360

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Whirlpool says it will close a machining facility in Benton Harbor, Mich. and eliminating 216 jobs as a result.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsbt.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: closing; jobs; michigan; whirlpool
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To: 23 Everest
Should have bought a Kenmore.

Whirlpool made most Kenmore white goods for many years. Probably still do.

41 posted on 06/01/2010 9:09:56 PM PDT by Erasmus (Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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To: chris_bdba

Back in the early 80’s when I did contract design work for them, I had a chance to talk to one of their marketing managers.

He showed me the coming-year Kenmores and Whirlpools in the same room. The lineups matched up model-for-model, with differences in the cosmetics and a few small features.

They definitely planned their products in conjunction with their biggest private label customer (Sears Kenmore), so that they could have a rationalized product line with minimum overall manufacturing cost.

A lot like a car company with several marques.


42 posted on 06/01/2010 9:17:41 PM PDT by Erasmus (Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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43 posted on 06/02/2010 2:04:31 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
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If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

44 posted on 06/02/2010 4:25:31 AM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: Paul46360

Seriously they are moving production there? I had read that all production of the large appliances was moving to Mexico and thought that all Ohio had was corporate offices?


45 posted on 06/02/2010 8:47:28 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: exhaustguy

I bought a new Kenmore set in 1996 and had to replace the first part a little over a year later on the washer. It seemed like we were placing somethign every eyar so when it finally went out and the pump was gone 4 years ago last december (almost 5 now) we decided to replace it. At the time I did not know that Kenmore and Whirlpool were made by the same people or I’d probably not bought it. My sister owns an LG and she has had really bad luck with it. It’s broke down nearly every year since she bought it and the bad part for her is that few repair people know how to work on the brand so repairs take a long time.


46 posted on 06/02/2010 8:51:30 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Paul46360

Granholm’s legacy continues.


47 posted on 06/02/2010 12:38:00 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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To: Paul46360

Michigan, are you blown away, yet?


48 posted on 06/02/2010 1:50:00 PM PDT by magslinger ("If I have money, I buy fishing gear. If I have money left over, I buy beer." - Hank Thoreau)
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To: Paul46360

Hope & Change....Had Enough Yet?


49 posted on 06/02/2010 1:51:59 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: NonValueAdded
Life’s Great! in Benton Harbor

In west Michigan it's referred to as Benton Harlem.

50 posted on 06/02/2010 4:28:38 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: ASA Vet

At least parts of the real Harlem are being gentrified (the Eurotrash love the brownstones up there). Benton Harbor has about as much chance of being gentrified as I do of bedding Scarlett Johanssen.


51 posted on 06/02/2010 4:34:04 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Clemenza; ASA Vet
I've actually been to Benton Harbor in the middle of the day. It looked like a ghost town boarded up, and that was before the riots. It reminded me of a smaller verion of some of the somewhat nearby south Chicago burbs like Harvey.

The sad thing is that, there should be no reason for a city on a crown jewel like Lake Michigan to have gotten in that bad of shape. Muskegon Heights is also bad, but that's not on the lake.

52 posted on 06/02/2010 4:56:31 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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To: Clemenza

Had no idea who your Scarlett was so did a bing image search. She’s okay I guess.


53 posted on 06/02/2010 4:58:08 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: Darren McCarty

What do Benton Harlem and Muskegon Heights have in common?


54 posted on 06/02/2010 5:00:53 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: magslinger

Michigan
Water, Winter, Welfare Wonderland


55 posted on 06/02/2010 5:01:41 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: ASA Vet

Both are West Michigan’s version of the Southeast Michigan ghetto. Whites and middle class blacks don’t live there.


56 posted on 06/02/2010 5:22:13 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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To: 23 Everest

I bought a Whirlpool refrigerator last year and it crapped out in one day. Menard’s had it back on the floor within the week. Never again.


57 posted on 06/04/2010 7:34:17 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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