Bought mobile-home maker Clayton Homes after reading autobiography by company founder.
Whirlpool, the home appliance maker that sells washing machines and refrigerators in Sears stores, slumped 8%.
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On the other hand, being a home-maker is a massive financial risk.
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Home appliance maker Whirlpool rallied 5.6%, after comfortably beating Wall Street estimates for its third-quarter earnings and, more importantly, raising its forecast.
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The home appliance maker rallied 8.6% after reporting better-than-expected earnings and actually raising its guidance for the full year, a rare sighting for investors this time around.
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Corporate earnings have been mostly better than anticipated this quarter, but that was not the case for Whirlpool Friday and the home appliance maker is slashing its workforce as a result.
One is IRIS OHYAMA a home products maker and on-line marketer whose corporate culture encourages trial and error and whose product line has been changing at a rate of 20% of items each year.
Home appliance-maker Rowenta reminds customers to not iron their clothes while wearing them.
The home-appliance maker is caught in a vicious spin cycle of rising expenses and intensified pressure from Korean rivals.
Surrounded by corn, soybean and dairy farms, Athens is about 12 miles from Battle Creek, home to cereal maker Kellogg Co.
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The home-carbonated drink maker put out a confusing environmental message of conserving bottle consumption with DIY beverages.
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New Belgium is our most famous beer-maker, home of Fat Tire, and the seventh largest brewery in the United States, according to Beer Info.
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Whirlpool disclosed a sales and distribution alliance with Chinese retailer Suning in an effort by the world's largest maker of home appliances to increase its small share of the market in China.
Home entertainment and PC peripherals maker Logitech is down sharply Thursday morning on weak results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31.
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The scheme has been welcomed by local residents, including 55-year-old Irene Hogg who lives in a Victorian semi in Maghull which was once home to legendary toy-maker Frank Hornby.
Since then, the sartorial wunderkind has inked deals with home furnishings purveyor Canvas, bling maker Swarovski and Target.
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Hyundai aims to sell more premium vehicles overseas to offset a rising won and sluggish demand at home for the South Korean auto maker.
Putting a handset, or a computer, in every home is simply not the high-end gadget maker's mission.
Those companies included Vivint in the home security space and SunPower, a solar panel maker and power plant developer.
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If Ellison goes shopping outside his home sector to buy chip companies or another hardware maker, as he seems determined to do, he will be increasing the odds that Oracle will eventually make an acquisition blunder.
The company, owned by New Balance, replace German giants Adidas as the maker of the Premier League team's home, away and third kits.
Those who remember A9, the online retailer's doomed search portal, will be forgiven for wondering if the Fire maker can really compete with Google on its home turf.
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That is because Japan's fifth-largest auto maker produces about 71% of its cars at home and exports roughly 80% of them, meaning a move in the currency can deliver a heavy blow or sudden windfall.
The inquests heard how Mr Allison Jr, with his friends Mr Bell and Grant Maker, had been celebrating his 28th birthday at the home he shared with his father in Hetley, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, on 20 March last year.
After completing an apprenticeship as a boiler-maker in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, he found no work at home, so he moved to Johannesburg last October, and was immediately offered three jobs.
It already is the world's second-largest maker of refrigerators, and runs sixth in worldwide sales of large home appliances, according to Euromonitor.
At home you can make ice cream in the freezer or in an ice cream maker but if you need to make thousands of litres a day, you need to use a different method.
Other housing-related names like building products maker Masco, paint company Sherwin-Williams, and even massive retailer Home Depot, are also ahead of Apple over the last 12 months.
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Kohler, the Wisconsin-based maker of high-end bathroom fixtures, has developed its own range of home-whirlpool designs that offer a multitude of water experiences.
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