{"id":19603,"date":"2022-09-07T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=19603"},"modified":"2024-09-25T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T19:28:12","slug":"business-titan-herb-kohler-executive-chairman-of-kohler-co-who-put-wisconsin-on-the-golf-map-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/business-titan-herb-kohler-executive-chairman-of-kohler-co-who-put-wisconsin-on-the-golf-map-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Business titan Herb Kohler, former Furman Paladin and executive chairman of Kohler, dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known for luxury plumbing products, hotels and golf courses, billionaire Herbert V. Kohler of Wisconsin died Sept. 3 at the age of 83. He attended Furman University briefly in 1962 before returning to Yale University to earn a degree in industrial administration. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/herbert-kohler-diversified-a-toilet-maker-into-golf-courses-and-hotels-11662559207\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/milwaukee\/news\/2022\/09\/04\/kohler-co-chairman-business-legend-herb-kohler-p.html\">Milwaukee Business Journal<\/a> (subscription required) the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com\/story\/news\/local\/milwaukee\/2022\/09\/04\/herb-kohler-83-executive-chairman-kohler-co-died-saturday\/7994266001\/\">Wisconsin Rapids Tribune<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/milwaukee\/2022\/09\/04\/herb-kohler-83-executive-chairman-kohler-co-died-saturday\/7994266001\/\">Milwaukee Journal Sentine<\/a>l, and multiple other outlets carried the story. &#8220;The Bold Look of Kohler&#8221; became more than a catchy slogan for the company under Kohler&#8217;s leadership, wrote the Sentinel; it became a rallying cry for the firm&#8217;s employees. &#8216;\u201cWe have the people, the products, the focus, the resources and the passion to pursue our mission and compete successfully,\u201d&#8217; Kohler once told associates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Herbert V. Kohler, best known for luxury plumbing fixtures, golf courses and hotels, attended Furman briefly in 1962 and finished at Yale. He passed away at the age of 83.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":19607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,190,192,1558,1,191],"tags":[295,1559,1560],"class_list":["post-19603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-milwaukee-business-journal","category-milwaukee-journal-sentinel","category-the-wall-street-journal","category-uncategorized","category-wisconsin-rapids-tribune","tag-golf","tag-kohler","tag-luxury-fixtures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34251,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions\/34251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}