His original research in motivation theories led to the application of play behaviour in innovation strategies, competitive analysis, trend mapping and new business models for companies as diverse as Motorola, LEGO, and Whirlpool.
Corporations that use or have used Attensity software include Airbus, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, HP, JetBlue, Lloyds Banking Group, Safeway, Siemens, StubHub, TiVo, Travelocity, Unilever, Walgreens, Wells Fargo and Whirlpool.
Frederick Upton and Louis Upton were brothers who co-founded the Whirlpool Corporation.
He played college basketball under Evansville coach Arad McCutchan even as he worked part-time making refrigerators for Whirlpool.
In 2005 the South Korean Consumer Protection Board concluded Samsung's Silver Wash technology was exaggerated in advertisements, due to test results which showed 99.9% removal of germs by similar drum-type washers of LG Electronics, Daewoo Electronics, and Whirlpool.
For the first two decades, the company's specialization was the remanufacturing of washing machine transmissions for such companies as Whirlpool, G.E., Maytag, and Speed Queen.
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American companies such as Whirpool, General Electric, Polaris Industries, Callaway, Parker Hannifin, Visteon among many others have manufacturing operations in Apodaca.
This would bring it into direct competition with established American companies GE, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, and Maytag.
Many manufactures have set up facilities here, among them Apollo Tyres; Whirlpool India, making refrigerators; LG Electronics, making televisions and mobile handsets; Daewoo Electronics, making refrigerators; Wheels India; Bajaj Electricals; Frito-Lay of Pepsico Holdings, manufacturing Lays potato chips; Fiat automobiles; Kirloskar; Swarovski; and Ohsung, a Korean company manufacturing electronics parts.