VIKING RANGE CORPORATION ACQUIRED BY MIDDLEBY CORPORATION

GREENWOOD, Miss. (December 31, 2012) Fred Carl, Jr., Founder, President and CEO of Viking Range Corporation, announced today that Viking has been acquired by Middleby Corporation of Elgin, Illinois. Viking, based in Greenwood, Mississippi, is the industry’s leading manufacturer of professional category appliances, a segment of the residential major appliance industry it created in 1987…