{"id":31127,"date":"2014-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-05-11T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:56:36","slug":"indesit-whirlpool-a-16-billion-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2014\/07\/indesit-whirlpool-a-16-billion-marriage\/31127\/","title":{"rendered":"Indesit-Whirlpool, a \u20ac16 billion marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Stile1\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www3.varesenews.it\/immagini_articoli\/201407\/indesit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"181\" align=\"absMiddle\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Stile1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p class=\"Stile1\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Sixteen billion euros<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">, \u20ac16,471 million to be precise. This is the <b>total worth<\/b>, in 2013, of the Whirlpool Corporation (\u20ac13,800 million) and Indesit (\u20ac2671 million). The marriage of the two groups, which both manufacture electrical appliances, will also bring the <b>15,790 workers<\/b>, currently employed by the giant of Fabriano, into the American multinational, adding to the <b>69,900<\/b> employees of <b>Whirlpool<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Stile1\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">With these mind-boggling numbers, a new chapter in this industrial story, which is no longer Italian, but global, will be written.\u00a0<\/span>It all began in Fabriano, in the Marches, when businessman <b>Aristide Merloni<\/b> founded <b>Industrie Merloni<\/b>, in the 1930s, thanks to a loan from a <b>priest<\/b>. Initially, they manufactured scales, then, immediately after the war, they changed to manufacturing <b>electrical appliances<\/b>, launching the Merloni family among the giants in this sector worldwide. In <b>1975<\/b>, <b>the group expanded, and Vittorio Merloni<\/b> purchased <b>Indesit<\/b>, the washing machine giant, which currently has factories in <b>Russia, the United Kingdom and Turkey<\/b>. The decision to sell to <b>Whirlpool<\/b> came with the third generation, and coincided with the historic time of difficulty for the electrical appliance industry, due to the crisis and competition from Asian countries. Although the collaboration with the American group dates back to at least ten years ago, it is only today that the Merloni family, with Aristide, the son of Vittorio, has decided to take the big step.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Stile1\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Whirlpool<\/strong>, which has purchased <strong>60% of Indesit<\/strong>, is now getting ready to launch a PPO (public purchase offer) on the floating shares, the shares in circulation, with a price of <strong>\u20ac11 each<\/strong> (after the news of the purchase, the share closed at \u20ac10,85).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Stile1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the purchase of 60% of the group based in Fabriano, Whirlpool becomes the leading manufacturer in Europe. Now, the Americans are launching a PPO (public purchase offer) for the shares in circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[4326,1149],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indesit-Whirlpool, a \u20ac16 billion marriage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"whirlpool compra indesit diventa leader elettrodomestico europa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indesit-Whirlpool, a \u20ac16 billion marriage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"whirlpool compra indesit diventa leader elettrodomestico europa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2014\/07\/indesit-whirlpool-a-16-billion-marriage\/31127\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"VareseNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/varesenews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michele.mancino.5\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-07-16T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-05-11T13:56:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www3.varesenews.it\/immagini_articoli\/201407\/indesit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michele Mancino\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@micmancio\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@varesenews\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Scritto da\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michele Mancino\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Tempo di lettura stimato\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minuto\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2014\/07\/indesit-whirlpool-a-16-billion-marriage\/31127\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2014\/07\/indesit-whirlpool-a-16-billion-marriage\/31127\/\",\"name\":\"Indesit-Whirlpool, a \u20ac16 billion marriage\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-07-16T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-05-11T13:56:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#\/schema\/person\/308b491d3cb680ead199e5ff6c6ce540\"},\"description\":\"whirlpool compra indesit diventa leader elettrodomestico europa\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2014\/07\/indesit-whirlpool-a-16-billion-marriage\/31127\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"it-IT\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2014\/07\/indesit-whirlpool-a-16-billion-marriage\/31127\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2014\/07\/indesit-whirlpool-a-16-billion-marriage\/31127\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.varesenews.it\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Indesit-Whirlpool, a \u20ac16 billion marriage\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/\",\"name\":\"VareseNews\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"it-IT\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#\/schema\/person\/308b491d3cb680ead199e5ff6c6ce540\",\"name\":\"Michele Mancino\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"it-IT\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/michele_mancino_colori_500.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/michele_mancino_colori_500.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Michele Mancino\"},\"description\":\"Sono a VareseNews da prima che nascesse. 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