Top 10 Vacuum Cleaners
Filed Under Decorating Ideas | Posted on April 14, 2008
Top 10 Vacuum Cleaners Manufacturers
1. Oreck
History about Oreck:
David Oreck founded the Oreck Corporation in the United States in 1963. The company’s principal manufacturing facilities are in Cookeville, TN.
Oreck Corporation began as a company manufacturing upright vacuum cleaners for the hotel industry in the U.S. The concept was to design a lightweight yet powerful and durable vacuum that hotel housekeepers would prefer to the very heavy models available to them. The idea proved so successful that now over 50,000 hotels throughout the world use Oreck vacuums. After a short time, hotel personnel asked to buy the machines for their own use, which gave the Oreck Corporation the idea to sell its unique products to the general public.
Oreck now sells throughout North America and South America, as well as in Europe and Asia. It has the reputation of being the manufacturer of the very finest cleaning equipment available anywhere. It concentrates on lightweight cleaning machines of every style, each model having exceptional durability and ease of handling. An example of its success is that the only vacuum cleaners sold by the American Express Company are Orecks.
Oreck has experienced double-digit growth for the past several years and is now a major manufacturer in the cleaning industry.
2. Bissell
History about Bissell:
In the mid-1800s, Anna and Melville Bissell owned a small crockery shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. While cleaning up after the day’s work, Anna often became frustrated with the sawdust that was embedded in the carpet. The tiny, stubborn particles clung to the carpet, and trying to sweep them up was becoming a time-consuming nuisance.
Anna presented the problem to Melville, her mechanically inclined husband. Melville designed and constructed a carpet sweeper machine that he hoped would solve the problem once and for all.
His ingenious carpet sweeper design was a success, and word of Melville Bissell’s carpet sweeper spread quickly. People soon began asking where they could purchase a carpet sweeper for themselves.
The BISSELL Carpet Sweeper was patented in 1876, and in 1883 the first BISSELL manufacturing plant was built in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Following Melville Bissell’s untimely death in 1889, Anna Bissell stepped in and confidently took control of the company, becoming America’s first female corporate CEO.
Under Anna’s aggressive and innovative management, BISSELL soon began to look in new directions in product development for their budding carpet sweeper line and to expand their carpet sweeper business to include all the continents of the world.
As lifestyles changed, the company expanded beyond the carpet sweeper and introduced additional products that helped people clean better while saving time. In the 1950s, BISSELL invented a new multi-purpose formula and shampooer that reduced the time involved in and the drudgery of carpet cleaning. To meet the growth of smaller living spaces, BISSELL introduced practical, lightweight cleaners that people could use quickly and store easily. And BISSELL made deep cleaning (once the exclusive domain of commercial providers) available to everyone with its introduction to the consumer market of the current carpet deep cleaners that feature a built-in heater to optimize performance. Additionally, BISSELL recently acquired the Woolite® Carpet and Upholstery business, which includes its renowned line of carpet cleaning products. Even though the dust is now somewhat settled, BISSELL remains focused on the future.
3. Hoover
Information about Hoover
he Hoover story begins in 1907. Murray Spangler, an inventor who worked nights as a janitor, had an asthma problem. He called upon his inventor’s creativity to find a solution to the dust that aggravated his asthma as he swept up at night.
Spangler gathered a tin soap box, a fan, a sateen pillow case and a broom handle, and assembled an odd-looking, cumbersome contraption that managed to pull the dust away from the air he breathed. He quickly realized that this “suction sweeper,” as he called it, had enormous sales potential, and he began seeking financial backing.
W.H. “Boss” Hoover, owner of a leather goods manufacturing shop, bought the patent from Spangler in 1908, retained him as a partner, and soon had six employees assembling six units a day in a corner of the leather goods shop.
“Boss” Hoover placed a small ad in the Saturday Evening Post offering 10 days’ free use of a Hoover suction sweeper to anyone who wrote and requested it. Instead of sending the cleaner directly to the potential customer, he chose a reputable store in each city that customers could purchase from. He allowed store managers to keep any commission from a resulting sale, and then offered the store the opportunity to become a Hoover vacuum dealer. This laid the groundwork for a national dealer network which, to this day, continues to be an important channel of distribution for Hoover products.
Meanwhile, engineers were designing new and improved methods of cleaning carpet. One of their most noteworthy innovations was the beater bar, introduced in 1926, which was the basis for one of the most memorable advertising slogans in history: “It beats, as it sweeps, as it cleans.” Aided by strong suction, the metal bar gently tapped the carpet to loosen deeply embedded dirt, as a bristle brush rapidly swept dirt up and out of the carpet.
Since then, the beater bar has gone through many tweaks and refinements and is still utilized in most Hoover vacuum cleaners today. Countless other “firsts” have been developed by Hoover engineers over the years to give consumers the most innovative and convenient features available. These include the disposable paper bag, the vacuum cleaner headlight, the self-propelled feature and the side-mounted hose feature.
Today, Hoover is part of TTI Floor Care North America, headquartered in Glenwillow, OH. As a leader in the floor-care industry, Hoover manufactures quality, high-performance vacuum cleaners for home and commercial settings. Since 1908, consumers and businesses have trusted Hoover to provide reliable, innovative cleaning solutions. Hoover offers a comprehensive line of products for general and special-purpose vacuuming, including full-size uprights and canisters, deep cleaners and hard-floor cleaners.
4. Fantom Technologies
5. Eureka
History and Information about Eureka
The word Eureka means, “I found it.” Greek physicist Archimedes (c. 287-212 B.C.) allegedly exclaimed “Eureka!” when he discovered the theory of water displacement. According to company legend, when Fred Wardell founded the company, he felt that the term “Eureka” symbolized a company that would create innovative products that would have an impact on the world.
Fred Wardell was right. Today, the Eureka brand continues to be recognized as one of the top vacuum cleaners in the world. Eureka products are for sale throughout North America and in 44 other nations. It’s a brand that will remain strong into the future.
Although the company is now known as Electrolux Home Products North America, consumers will continue to see and hear about Eureka floor care products as the Eureka brand is part of the largest, and the only, global manufacturer of floor care appliances.
| 1909 | - | Fred Wardell founds The Eureka Company in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 1913 | - | Eureka makes six different vacuum models with special attachments. |
| 1915 | - | Eureka is awarded the Grand Prize at the San Francisco International Exposition. |
| 1919 | - | Eureka factory in Detroit has a production capacity of 2,000 cleaners a day. |
| 1927 | - | Eureka is selling one-third of all vacuum cleaners produced in the United States |
| 1930 | - | Eureka begins manufacturing the Electric Range. |
| 1941 | - | Commercial production of vacuum cleaners is discontinued. |
| 1942 | - | Production in Detroit is dedicated to making gas masks and other products to support the war efforts during WWII. |
| 1945 | - | Eureka merges with Williams Oil-O-Matic in Bloomington, Illinois and changes its name to Eureka-Williams. The Company receives the “E” award from the U.S. Department of the Navy. |
| 1949 | - | Eureka creates a “Wooden Lung” for treatment of infantile paralysis and polio |
| 1957 | - | Eureka-Williams ends heating and air conditioning business and concentrates on household floor care products |
| 1960 | - | Eureka-Williams merges with National Union Electric Corporation and begins production of school furniture. |
| 1961 | - | Eureka-Williams makes battery-operated automobile called the Henney Kilowatt. |
| 1968 | - | Eureka begins production of the thermal battery for use in NASA space systems. |
| 1974 | - | Eureka-Williams is purchased by AB Electrolux of Sweden and changes its name to The Eureka Company. |
| 1981 | - | The Eureka Company opens a plant for parts manufacturing in Juarez, Mexico. |
| 1983 | - | The Eureka Company develops a manufacturing plant in El Paso, Texas. |
| 1984 | - | Production of vacuum cleaners begins in El Paso plant. |
| 1997 | - | The manufacturing and warehouse facilities in Normal, Illinois and El Paso, Texas are expanded. |
| 2003 | - | The Eureka Company begins to offer Electrolux branded floor care products. |
| 2004 | - | The Eureka Company officially changes its name to Electrolux Home Care Products North America. |
Today, the company concentrates exclusively on manufacturing and distributing more than 130 different models of vacuum cleaners and other home and commercial cleaning products. The company has four brands: Eureka, Electrolux, Sanitaire and Beam.
As a full-line company, Eureka offers uprights, including those with attachments; canisters, hand-held vacuums, home built-in systems, stick vacuums, battery-powered vacuum cleaners, wet-dry vacs, steam cleaners and home cleaning systems. Eureka also manufactures and offers original and replacement parts, including bags, belts, and filters for the models it manufactures.
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steam cleaners can clean lots of dirty clothes in a very short period of time that is why i always prefer to use them `;~
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