Kenworth is a manufacturer of medium and heavy-duty Class 8 trucks based in Kirkland, Washington, United States, a suburb of Seattle. It is a subsidiary of PACCAR, and is also a former manufacturer of transit buses and school buses.
Kenexa Corporation provides software, content and services that enable organizations to recruit and retain employees. Its solutions are built around a suite of configurable software applications that automate talent acquisition and employee performance management practices. It offers the software applications that form the on-demand solutions. It is a provider of integrated talent management solutions. Its solutions also provide employee performance management systems that help to ensure that organizations retain and optimize the performance of qualified individuals, identify employees who fail to perform and identify successors for critical positions. In addition, its solutions help organizations manage learning and assessment opportunities and events to develop employees for jobs. Finally, its solutions enable customers to determine its workforce’s engagement level and diagnose where changes in behavior (for individual employees, managers and senior leaders) or human resource programs improve organizational performance and business outcomes. In July 2010, the Company acquired The Centre for High Performance Development (Holdings) Limited. In October 2010, the Company acquired Salary.com, Inc.
Hiring Solutions
The Company’s hiring solutions consists of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), recruitment technology, onboarding, employee assessments, skills tests, structured interviews and employment branding. Its RPO offering delivers candidate-fast. With operations worldwide, it uses technology and human ability to reach hard-to-find candidates and deliver them real-time to recruiters. The Company provides complete recruitment technology systems for the companies in the world. Its Web-based technology provides organizations need to locate and track candidates as they move through the hiring process. The Company’s onboarding solution offers forms management for legal documents, workflow and electronic signatures. It offers employee assessments that help organizations select and retain performers.
Kenexa Corporation offer skills tests that improve the screening process by helping organizations identify and select the candidates. Kenexa Prove It! System offers more than 1,000 validated assessments for specific job classifications, including software, office/professional, call center, financial, healthcare, industrial, legal and technical positions. It offers structured interviews that assess candidates with accuracy, objectivity and consistency, while improving the fit of hires within each organization's culture. Kenexa Interview Builder System provides an online structured interview reference library of more than 3,000 questions that improves interviewer confidence, efficiency, accuracy and defensibility. Its employment branding offering applies the same consumer branding principles of attracting and retaining customers to attracting and retaining employees.
Retention Solutions
The Company’s Retention Solutions includes performance management, employee surveys, learning management and leadership solutions. The Company offers performance management solutions that integrate performance management, compensation management, career development, goal alignment and succession planning. Its solutions enable companies to improve productivity, streamline processes, improve accountability and improve employee engagement. It delivers employee surveys that provide the measurements needed to further each organization and improve business outcomes.
The Company’s learning management solution enables organizations to deliver and track employee learning. Its system is ideal for all types of training, including skills and behavioral learning, new-hire orientation, leadership education and sales training. The Company’s Leadership Solutions are designed to address business needs by increasing the leadership in organizations. It offers leadership audit, leadership assessments and leadership development solutions that align with each company’s business to help drive organizational performance and success.
The Company competes with Peopleclick Authoria, iCIMS, Inc., Integrated Performance Systems, Inc., Kronos, Pilat HR Solutions, Inc., Previsor, Inc., SHL Group plc, SuccessFactors, Inc., Taleo Corporation, Oracle Corporation (PeopleSoft), SAP AG, Lawson, Inc., Accolo, Inc., Alexander Mann Solutions, The Right Thing and The Gallup Organization.
Kenworth began its history in Portland, Oregon. In 1912, the company was founded by brothers George T. and Louis Gerlinger, Jr. as a car and truck dealership known as Gerlinger Motor Car Works. In 1914, they decided to build their own truck with a more powerful inline six-cylinder engine. This was the first ever put into a commercial truck. The Gersix, as it was known, unveiled in 1915, was framed in structural steel, which along with its power, made the truck ideal for the rugged Northwest, where it was used for logging.
The classic Kenworth (W900)
In 1916 the Gerlinger Motor Car Company moved to Tacoma, Washington. Seattle businessman Edgar K. Worthington was managing his mother's commercial building, where Gerlinger became a tenant, and became intrigued by the Gerlinger company. Worthington's tenant was doing quite well, or so it seemed, and the Gersix became a popular fixture in the Northwest. However, the company, which then had offices in Seattle and Portland, was struggling and in 1917, Louis Gerlinger offered the manufacturing operation for sale. Worthington jumped at the opportunity. Together with his partner, Captain Frederick Kent, they formed the Gersix Manufacturing Company, to continue making a six-cylinder truck.
In 1919, Kent retired from the business and his son, Harry, became Worthington's new partner. In 1922, Gersix made 53 trucks at its factory on Fairview Avenue at Valley Street. Under the new name, the company moved to 506 Mercer Street and later to 1263 Mercer Street. Trucks and motor coaches were assembled in individual bays rather than on a conventional assembly line.
Kenworth was founded in 1923, taking the first three letters of "Kent" and the first five of "Worthington", capitalized with US$60,000. The following year, the company sold 80 trucks. In 1933[citation needed] Kenworth became the first truck maker in the United States to switch entirely from gasoline to diesel internal combustion engines.
Kenworth was one of the first North American truck makers to come out with a cab-over-engine, or COE, model in 1957.
OVERALL
Beta: 2.57
Market Cap (Mil.): $702.77
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 23.50
Annual Dividend: --
Yield (%): --
FINANCIALS
KNXA.O Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): -- 9.32 16.98
EPS (TTM): -380.20 -- --
ROI: -3.92 4.42 3.28
ROE: -6.64 6.16 5.91
Expansion into Canada occurred in 1955 when Canadian Kenworth Limited was formed, and production of both highway and off road trucks, particularly for the logging industry, began in Burnaby, British Columbia. Along the years it competed directly against localy stablished makers as Hayes, Pacific and Challenger.
Canadian Kenworth became eventually a wholly owned subsidiary of PACCAR.
Name Age Since Current Position
Karsan, Nooruddin 53 1997 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Kanter, Troy 43 2006 President, Chief Operating Officer, Director
Volk, Donald 61 1996 Chief Financial Officer
Lochner, Eric 2011 President - Global Talent Management
McCashland, Courtney 38 2011 President - Global Assessment Division
Jones, Archie 39 2005 Vice President-Business Development
Geisert, Tim 2011 Chief Marketing Officer
Restivo, James 50 2006 Chief Knowledge Officer
Abelson, Barry 64 2000 Independent Director
Konen, Joseph 63 2000 Independent Director
Nies, John 42 2002 Independent Director
Pinola, Richard 65 2005 Independent Director
Booth, Renee 52 2006 Independent Director
Maddox, Rebecca 57 2006 Independent Director
COMPANY ADDRESS
Kenexa Corp
650 East Swedesford Road
2nd Floor
Wayne PA 19087
Kenexa Corporation provides software, content and services that enable organizations to recruit and retain employees. Its solutions are built around a suite of configurable software applications that automate talent acquisition and employee performance management practices. It offers the software applications that form the on-demand solutions. It is a provider of integrated talent management solutions. Its solutions also provide employee performance management systems that help to ensure that organizations retain and optimize the performance of qualified individuals, identify employees who fail to perform and identify successors for critical positions. In addition, its solutions help organizations manage learning and assessment opportunities and events to develop employees for jobs. Finally, its solutions enable customers to determine its workforce’s engagement level and diagnose where changes in behavior (for individual employees, managers and senior leaders) or human resource programs improve organizational performance and business outcomes. In July 2010, the Company acquired The Centre for High Performance Development (Holdings) Limited. In October 2010, the Company acquired Salary.com, Inc.
Hiring Solutions
The Company’s hiring solutions consists of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), recruitment technology, onboarding, employee assessments, skills tests, structured interviews and employment branding. Its RPO offering delivers candidate-fast. With operations worldwide, it uses technology and human ability to reach hard-to-find candidates and deliver them real-time to recruiters. The Company provides complete recruitment technology systems for the companies in the world. Its Web-based technology provides organizations need to locate and track candidates as they move through the hiring process. The Company’s onboarding solution offers forms management for legal documents, workflow and electronic signatures. It offers employee assessments that help organizations select and retain performers.
Kenexa Corporation offer skills tests that improve the screening process by helping organizations identify and select the candidates. Kenexa Prove It! System offers more than 1,000 validated assessments for specific job classifications, including software, office/professional, call center, financial, healthcare, industrial, legal and technical positions. It offers structured interviews that assess candidates with accuracy, objectivity and consistency, while improving the fit of hires within each organization's culture. Kenexa Interview Builder System provides an online structured interview reference library of more than 3,000 questions that improves interviewer confidence, efficiency, accuracy and defensibility. Its employment branding offering applies the same consumer branding principles of attracting and retaining customers to attracting and retaining employees.
Retention Solutions
The Company’s Retention Solutions includes performance management, employee surveys, learning management and leadership solutions. The Company offers performance management solutions that integrate performance management, compensation management, career development, goal alignment and succession planning. Its solutions enable companies to improve productivity, streamline processes, improve accountability and improve employee engagement. It delivers employee surveys that provide the measurements needed to further each organization and improve business outcomes.
The Company’s learning management solution enables organizations to deliver and track employee learning. Its system is ideal for all types of training, including skills and behavioral learning, new-hire orientation, leadership education and sales training. The Company’s Leadership Solutions are designed to address business needs by increasing the leadership in organizations. It offers leadership audit, leadership assessments and leadership development solutions that align with each company’s business to help drive organizational performance and success.
The Company competes with Peopleclick Authoria, iCIMS, Inc., Integrated Performance Systems, Inc., Kronos, Pilat HR Solutions, Inc., Previsor, Inc., SHL Group plc, SuccessFactors, Inc., Taleo Corporation, Oracle Corporation (PeopleSoft), SAP AG, Lawson, Inc., Accolo, Inc., Alexander Mann Solutions, The Right Thing and The Gallup Organization.
Kenworth began its history in Portland, Oregon. In 1912, the company was founded by brothers George T. and Louis Gerlinger, Jr. as a car and truck dealership known as Gerlinger Motor Car Works. In 1914, they decided to build their own truck with a more powerful inline six-cylinder engine. This was the first ever put into a commercial truck. The Gersix, as it was known, unveiled in 1915, was framed in structural steel, which along with its power, made the truck ideal for the rugged Northwest, where it was used for logging.
The classic Kenworth (W900)
In 1916 the Gerlinger Motor Car Company moved to Tacoma, Washington. Seattle businessman Edgar K. Worthington was managing his mother's commercial building, where Gerlinger became a tenant, and became intrigued by the Gerlinger company. Worthington's tenant was doing quite well, or so it seemed, and the Gersix became a popular fixture in the Northwest. However, the company, which then had offices in Seattle and Portland, was struggling and in 1917, Louis Gerlinger offered the manufacturing operation for sale. Worthington jumped at the opportunity. Together with his partner, Captain Frederick Kent, they formed the Gersix Manufacturing Company, to continue making a six-cylinder truck.
In 1919, Kent retired from the business and his son, Harry, became Worthington's new partner. In 1922, Gersix made 53 trucks at its factory on Fairview Avenue at Valley Street. Under the new name, the company moved to 506 Mercer Street and later to 1263 Mercer Street. Trucks and motor coaches were assembled in individual bays rather than on a conventional assembly line.
Kenworth was founded in 1923, taking the first three letters of "Kent" and the first five of "Worthington", capitalized with US$60,000. The following year, the company sold 80 trucks. In 1933[citation needed] Kenworth became the first truck maker in the United States to switch entirely from gasoline to diesel internal combustion engines.
Kenworth was one of the first North American truck makers to come out with a cab-over-engine, or COE, model in 1957.
OVERALL
Beta: 2.57
Market Cap (Mil.): $702.77
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 23.50
Annual Dividend: --
Yield (%): --
FINANCIALS
KNXA.O Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): -- 9.32 16.98
EPS (TTM): -380.20 -- --
ROI: -3.92 4.42 3.28
ROE: -6.64 6.16 5.91
Expansion into Canada occurred in 1955 when Canadian Kenworth Limited was formed, and production of both highway and off road trucks, particularly for the logging industry, began in Burnaby, British Columbia. Along the years it competed directly against localy stablished makers as Hayes, Pacific and Challenger.
Canadian Kenworth became eventually a wholly owned subsidiary of PACCAR.
Name Age Since Current Position
Karsan, Nooruddin 53 1997 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Kanter, Troy 43 2006 President, Chief Operating Officer, Director
Volk, Donald 61 1996 Chief Financial Officer
Lochner, Eric 2011 President - Global Talent Management
McCashland, Courtney 38 2011 President - Global Assessment Division
Jones, Archie 39 2005 Vice President-Business Development
Geisert, Tim 2011 Chief Marketing Officer
Restivo, James 50 2006 Chief Knowledge Officer
Abelson, Barry 64 2000 Independent Director
Konen, Joseph 63 2000 Independent Director
Nies, John 42 2002 Independent Director
Pinola, Richard 65 2005 Independent Director
Booth, Renee 52 2006 Independent Director
Maddox, Rebecca 57 2006 Independent Director
COMPANY ADDRESS
Kenexa Corp
650 East Swedesford Road
2nd Floor
Wayne PA 19087
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