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information. Pulte Homes, Inc Type Public (NYSE: PHM) Founded 1950 Headquarters Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA Key people William J. Pulte, Founder

Richard J. Dugas Jr, CEO

James R. Ellinghausen Sr. VP of HR Industry Residential Construction Revenue ?$14.694 billion USD (2006)

?$9.263 billion USD (2007) Operating income ?$2.201 billion USD (2006)

?-$2.307 billion USD (2007) Net income ?$1.491 billion USD (2006)

? -$2,256 billion USD (2007) Employees 13,400 (2006) Website www.pulte.com

Pulte Homes, Inc (NYSE: PHM) is a Bloomfield Hills, MI based company founded by Bill Pulte. Pulte is the third largest (by units) builder of homes and residential community developers in the United States according to Builder Magazine's"Builder 100", and is the nation's largest builder of active adult communities for people 55 years of age and older. Pulte Mortgage LLC is the lending division of Pulte Homes.

Pulte's company motto is "Homeowner for Life." Signifying that their business goals are to provide first time homeowners with their first homes and work them up through their signature communities up to an estate size home and even to their retirement homes. Because of their hard working customer service managers, their customer devotion ranks high and records
show that compared to other public homebuilders, their repeat buyer business is the highest.

The company has three main parts of the business model. Sales, Construction, and Customer Service. The company also has forward planning as the Land department as well as Finance. Mortgage department also helps to support the main Sales department. All departments work together truly as a team to ensure that potentially and then actual homeowners are happy with their homes. Contents [hide] 1 Operations 2 Key Statistics 3 Criticism 4 References 5 External links //

Operations

Pulte Homes operates through two segments, Homebuilding and Financial Services. Homebuilding The Homebuilding segment engages in the acquisition and development of land principally for residential purposes within the continental United States, as well as the construction of housing on such land targeted for the first-time, first and second move-up, and active adult home buyers. Pulte has subsidiaries that include Del Webb, which builds retirement communities, and Palm Beach Gardens-based Divosta Homes, a pioneer in the mass-market construction of cast concrete houses. Pulte Homes Leads All Homebuilders With Highest Customer Satisfaction Rankings in 11 Markets, As Reported by J.D. Power and Associates(R) Financial Services Financial Services segment provides mortgage banking and title operations services. The

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