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Viking Range Corporation is a private company which manufactures professional kitchen appliances for home use. Viking originated the "professional" segment of kitchen appliances with its introduction of the first commercial-grade range for home use in 1987. Today the company offers two complete lines of premium appliances including cooking, ventilation, clean-up and refrigeration, as well as various outdoor appliances. Headquartered on historic Cotton Row in downtown Greenwood, Mississippi, Viking Range employs more than 1,000 people at three different manufacturing facilities in Leflore County. A private company is a company that is independently owned. ...
Cooking is the act of preparing food for eating. ...
Ventilation good and very bad Ventilation is air circulation of air, typically between a room, a tunnel, etc. ...
It has been suggested that Refrigerator be merged into this article or section. ...
Greenwood is situated in Leflore County, Mississippi at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta, approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. ...
Leflore County is a county located in the state of Mississippi. ...
History In the 1980's Fred Carl, Jr., founder and president of Viking Range, discovered some major flaws in the design of commercial appliances with respect to their installation in a residential kitchen. These flaws among other things made them impractical and undesirable for use in the home. After much research and development, Carl worked through the problems and finally introduced the first commercial-type range in 1987. Since then the company has expanded with its increased success and currently manufactures such premium items as cookware, cutlery and countertop appliances. A residential area is a type of land use where the predominant use is residential. ...
The phrase research and development (also R and D or R&D) has a special commercial significance apart from its conventional coupling of research and technological development. ...
cast-iron iron enamel stainless steel The cooking pan is a type of food preparation utensil commonly found in the kitchen which includes many more specific cooking vessels such as saucepans and frying pans (or fry pans). ...
Starch-polyester disposable cutlery Cutlery refers to any hand utensil used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food. ...
Greenwood's Viking Renaissance The establishment of Viking's hometown of Greenwood, Mississippi as a tourist destination came with the opening of The Alluvian Hotel on Howard Street in 2003. Built as a subsidiary of Viking Range, The Alluvian is a cosmopolitan boutique hotel located in the heart of historic downtown Greenwood. Greenwood is situated in Leflore County, Mississippi at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta, approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. ...
Boutique hotel is a term originating in North America to describe intimate, usually luxurious or quirky hotel environments. ...
In 2005, Greenwood got a big shot of urbana with the opening of a 7,000-square-foot spa, a cooking school and a bakery. // The term spa is traditionally used to mean a place where water that is believed to have special health-giving properties occurs. ...
The Alluvian Spa, Viking Cooking School and the Mockingbird Bakery are all the work of Viking Hospitality Group, and serve as entertainment only for the corporate clientele that Viking brings to town for training and demonstrations. Outside of Viking’s development, other private ventures have flourished in the blocks surrounding The Alluvian, including many museums, boutique retail stores, restaurants and antique stores.
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