PENGUIN WINDOWS - Excellence in Installation

Penguin Windows has made a machine out of window installations. Pumping out as many as 500 jobs per month, the Mukilteo, Wash., replacement window company knows that consistency is the ticket to quality. So Penguin’s installers are taught to install windows with the same set of procedures every single time—whether it’s the first window of the month or the hundredth.

“What simplifies our process is that we strictly follow the AAMA-developed guidelines [of InstallationMasters],” says Vaughn McCourt, director of operations. “It takes away from one guy doing it one way and another guy doing it another way.”

The greater consistency in the installation, Penguin finds, the better the consistency in the feedback from customers. McCourt says countless letters flow into the company after the installation—the final and most memorable aspect of the project—is complete.

“Your installation team was great,” write Brad and Barb Conway of Salem, Ore. “First class work and the windows and doors are breathtaking.”... Read the full article

11/01/08: PENGUIN WINDOWS ANNOUNCES $20,000 SWEEPSTAKES WINNER FROM PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON.

Mountlake Terrace, WA – October 31, 2008 – Penguin Windows announced that Erica and Rick McLachlin of Puyallup, Washington have won the Penguin Window’s $20,000 Summer Sweepstakes.

The Grand Prize includes $10,000 of  installed Triple Pane Penguin Windows for their home and $10,000 in cash. The McLachlins have three children and when informed they won, Rick said “That’s great! We were hoping to do some remodeling and this certainly makes it much easier.” Erica expressed “Now, I’m so happy I heard a Penguin Windows radio commercial and went home immediately, and entered the Sweepstakes on Penguin Windows.com.”

Erica is a stay at home mother, who also works part-time, and Rick is a Lead Commercial Technician for Comcast and have enjoyed living in Puyallup for over 6 years.

According to Gordon Williams, CFO of Penguin Windows, “We have had tremendous response to our quarterly, Homeowners Sweepstakes, especially during this challenging economy, and in fact, we just started a new one on PenguinWindows.com.” .. download pdf

Penguin Windows Honored With BIG50 Award

Penguin Windows is proud to announce that they have been selected by REMODELING magazine as a winner of the 2008 Big50 Award. The Big50 Awards were presented at the Remodeling Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. on May 5, 2008. Winning companies are featured in the May issue of REMODELING magazine.

Each year, REMODELING magazine inducts 50 companies who have set the standard for professionalism and integrity through smart marketing, exemplary business practices, unique design, and extraordinary impact in their community or the industry at large. Big50 remodelers run successful, often growing, companies of various sizes that have taken the lead in raising industry standards.

“We are very honored to receive this distinction,” says Dean Laue, President of Penguin Windows. “The award recognizes excellence and leadership, and we are privileged to be named to this select group of remodelers.”

REMODELING editors, columnists, and industry leaders, make the nominations each year. Following a lengthy evaluation process—which includes interviewing people at the nominated companies, and often interviewing their competitors, and suppliers—REMODELING’S editors select the 50 remodelers who exemplify the very best of the industry that year, and who have something to offer other remodelers in proven practices.

REMODELING magazine, published by Hanley wood, LLC, is the leading publication in the home improvement industry, designed to address the specific concerns of residential remodeling professionals.

1/22/07: Statewide Becomes Penguin

Mountlake Terrace, WA – January 22, 2007 – Statewide Windows, the number one ranked replacement window company in the Pacific Northwest has announced the change of their company name to Penguin Windows. This will be effective February 1, 2007.. download pdf