Whirlpool: Deal made on Fort Smith plant
Posted: September 6, 2012 at 11:35 a.m.
The former Whirlpool plant in a 2011 file photo.
Whirlpool has entered into an agreement to sell its former plant in Fort Smith, according to a statement from a Whirlpool spokesman.
The facility is 2.19 million square feet, the equivalent of about 38 football fields. It closed in July. Infinity Asset Solutions Inc. has agreed to buy the plant, according to the statement from Kristine Vernier, a Whirlpool spokesman.
The process should be complete by the end of the year, Vernier said in the statement.
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
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Clarification: The original headline on this story stated that Whirlpool had sold the plant. As the story made clear, Whirlpool said it has reached an agreement to sell the plant.
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