Maytag

The Maytag Corporation is an American home and commercial appliance company. The company has been owned by Whirlpool Corporation since April 2006.

==History== left|thumb|Former Maytag logo, created by design firm Chapman, Goldsmith & Yamasaki in 1963, and used until 2008 thumb|Edna & Floyd Cramer at their Maytag Store in Butler, Pennsylvania 1920s thumb|Former Headquarters of the Maytag Corporation, Newton, Iowa thumb|Antique Maytag washing machine. thumbnail|1928 Maytag Model 90 Wringer Washer completely restored thumbnail|1935 Maytag Model 30 Wringer Washer The Maytag Washing Machine Company was founded in 1893 by businessman Frederick Maytag. In 1925, Maytag Washing Machine Company became Maytag, Inc. Frederick's son Elmer Henry Maytag took over as president of the company from 1926 until his own death in 1940. In the early 1930s, photographer Theodor Horydczak took pictures of the plant and some of its workers. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the company was one of the few to make a profit. In 1938, Maytag provoked strikes by the company's workers because of a 10% pay cut. The company was able to beat the strike because of the intervention of four military companies, including a machine gun company, of the 113th Cavalry Regiment, Iowa National Guard. At his father's death in 1940, Fred Maytag II, grandson of the founder, took over the presidency. During World War II, the company participated in war production by making special components for military equipment. In 1946, production of washing machines was resumed; in 1949, the first automatic washers were produced in a new, dedicated factory. In 1946, Maytag began marketing a separate line of ranges and refrigerators made by other companies under the Maytag name. During the Korean War, the company again produced parts for military equipment, although washing-machine production continued.