Company: MWA
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001350593-25-000066
Chunk: 139

Company: Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 139
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 customer experience.  We continue to invest time and resources to deepen our channel partnerships and end-customer relationships to increase our presence in the fastest-growing markets.  Additionally, we seek to attract and retain customers through product training and engineering resources to ascertain, educate and understand project requirements.  We plan to continue to invest in our product development capabilities, including our research and development processes, to develop and market new products and services.  We expect to add new products to our portfolio and offer new products in different end markets.

Foster culture through purpose, collaboration, inclusion and effectiveness.

We believe our employees are our greatest asset, and we strive to provide a safe, inclusive, high-performance culture where our people can thrive.  We endeavor to recruit, develop, engage, train and protect our workforce.  Our core values of respect, integrity, trust, safety and inclusion shape our culture and define who we are.  We continue to make investments to enhance collaboration and teamwork throughout the organization to create a culture of talent development, enabling us to execute on our strategic opportunities and make Mueller a preferred place to work.  We prioritize employee engagement and transparency by implementing programs and processes to provide our employees with opportunities to ask questions, voice concerns and share feedback.  This communication is accomplished in part by conducting employee experience surveys, global town halls and facility employee meetings.

Continue to seek, acquire, and invest in businesses and technologies that expand our existing portfolio or allow us to enter new markets.

We will continue to evaluate the acquisition of strategic businesses, technologies and product lines that have the potential to strengthen our competitive position, enhance or expand our existing product and service offerings, expand our technological capabilities, leverage our manufacturing capabilities, provide synergistic opportunities, enhance our customer relationships or allow us to enter new markets.  As part of this strategy, we have pursued, and may continue to pursue, international opportunities, including acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships.

Description of Products and Services

We offer a broad line of water infrastructure, and flow control products and services primarily in the United States and Canada.  Water Flow Solutions sells iron gate and specialty valves, and service brass products.  Water Management Solutions sells fire hydrants, repair and installation, natural gas, metering, leak detection and pressure management and control products and solutions.  Our products are designed, manufactured and tested in compliance with relevant industry standards.  Our water distribution products are manufactured to meet or exceed American Water Works Association (“AWWA”) standards and, where applicable, certified to National Science Foundation (“NSF”)/