NEWTON, Iowa (AP) -- The last washers and dryers were rolling off Maytag assembly lines here Thursday and the 550 workers who built them were preparing to leave the 2 million-square-foot factory for ...
Fritz Maytag isn`t involved with dirty laundry and washing machines. Instead, Maytag, a fourth generation member of the washing machine family, calls his product line ”quintessentially American.” ...
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Through innovation and marketing, that business became such a success that in 1924 one of every five washing machines sold in the United States was a Maytag. The name Maytag wasn't just on the factory ...
It’s ironic that the closing of the factory occurs 100 years after the development of Fred Maytag’s first washing machine in Newton. It was in 1907 that he made and marketed first wooden-tub washing ...