BBC NEWS | Business | Whirlpool buys Maytag for $1.7bn
US household appliance firm Whirlpool signs a deal to buy Maytag - the company
behind the Hoover brand - for $1.7bn.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4174888.stm - 30k

Whirlpool has a huge plant in Ft Smith AR., where my inlaws live.

I keep up with their activities.  They also make appliances under the Sears Kenmore label.

Cheers, James

BTW -the websites of these Corps can be very slow in updating.  

I bet Chevron still makes it a bitch to find any info on their Typhoon Deepsea Platform which was destroyed.