After more than 50 years, Davis family selling Hayward Industries has been purchased by three investment firms: CCMP Capital Advisors LP; MSD Partners, LP; and Alberta Investment Management Corporation. Founded in 1925, the Davis family had owned Hayward since 1964. “I am extremely proud of the accomplishments realized by our team in positioning Hayward as…
When Hayward hired Bob Hughes in 2007, its Rhode Island plant was out of space. Since then, it has almost doubled production there without expanding. How Hayward has accomplished this is a lesson in manufacturing efficiency and creativity, coupled with a commitment to improvement from the organization’s top leaders to its factory workers. In 2004,…
Greg Fournier joined Hayward Industries four years ago, transitioning from the consumer-electronics industry to Hayward to help develop the company’s OmniLogic automated control system. Fournier, who says the elements of product design were similar across both industries, knew Hayward’s customers were asking for easier-to-use controls. “We wanted to make it simpler to buy, sell, configure…