Vacuum Cleaners

Philadelphia Daily News - From the Citizens’ Alliance for Better Neighborhoods, a nonprofit that Fumo created, came the bulldozer, agency-paid handymen, $75,000 worth of power tools, and 19 Oreck vacuum cleaners, the indictment said. The charges resulting from a four-year

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Athens Banner-Herald - The demand for lightweight vacuum cleaners is high, and owner Jim Tomlinson says Singer Sewing and Vacuum Center has recently Tomlinson says customers don’t pay any more for the durability of all Royal, Oreck, and Riccar machines. Not only are

Fumo’s facing 139 counts; longtime aide also charged
Philadelphia Daily News - The charity bought $75,000 worth of tools and other items for use in Fumo’s four homes, including 19 Oreck vacuum cleaners, the feds charged. Citizens Alliance paid for shopping sprees during summer months down the shore when Fumo and Arnao would meet

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Philadelphia Inquirer - Among the items: 19 Oreck vacuum cleaners for more than $6,500. They were distributed to every floor of Fumo’s Green Street mansion, to his home in Florida and to other places. Citizens Alliance employees made at least 80 trips to the Jersey shore

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INS News - Numerous shopping sprees bought household items, food, clothing, DVDs, tools and an inexplicable 19 Oreck vacuum cleaners using Citizens Alliance funds. It says Fumo also used Alliance funds for political work, including polling. Fumo also engaged

LONG BEACH, Miss. | Ten days after Hurricane Katrina tore through town, the Oreck Corp. reopened the storm-damaged plant where it assembles its widely advertised vacuum cleaners.

Give Tom Oreck a Break 
Tom Oreck has been taking a lot of heat lately. The president of t…

Fraud allegations against Sen. Vincent Fumo, at a glance 
—DEFRAUDING THE SENATEMAIN ALLEGATION: Fumo used Senate staff and contractors to tend to his personal needs, as well as for political gain. His philosophy was spend “other people’s money,” which he referred to by the initialism O-P-M.

DAILY DIGEST / Oreck moves vacuum plant to Tennessee 
Ten days after Hurricane Katrina tore through town, the Oreck Corp. reopened the storm-damaged plant where it assembled its widely advertised vacuum cleaners. It hauled in generators to make electricity, imported trailers to house its workers and was hailed…

A German firm has been forced to withdraw magazine adverts running in Ireland in a row over vacuum cleaners. UK-based manufacturer Dyson made six advertising complaints against Miele which have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.

Independent - Dann raised concerns that adding Hoover to Techtronic’s portfolio of floor-care products would hurt consumers in creating an anticompetitive field in the vacuum cleaner market. But he reportedly dropped the plan after the company said it would use the

PERSPECTIVE: Hoover deal sign of conflicting targets for Dems
Cleveland Plain Dealer - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) It must have been a confusing few weeks for Techtronic Industries, the suitor that last week sealed a deal to buy the iconic vacuum cleaner maker Hoover Co. Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, who is in his first weeks as state development

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New York Times - Jennings, general secretary of UNI Global Union, the international association of trade unions, which says it has 15 million members in 150 countries. They are like a global vacuum cleaner Hoover-ing up assets any place, anywhere, any time and we

New owner swept up by Hoover
Cincinnati Enquirer - Ray Elsoffer with All Makes Vacuum Cleaner Co. in Cleveland Heights, who has been in the business more than 35 years, said he wasn t surprised that the Hoover brand is sticking around. There s no reason to get rid of the Hoover name. It s

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Boston IMC - Edgar Hoover’s obsession with the civil rights leader and his near-fanatical efforts to defame and defile him. The CIA has It lets monopoly capitalism function like a giant vacuum cleaner growing ever larger by sucking into corporate coffers and

Vinnie Atria left Shawnee High School more than 40 years ago with a couple of minor claims to fame. He could bowl. And he was a nephew of Pee Wee Reese, the baseball player. Neither distinction cut much ice in the workaday world where only a fantasist could imagine bowling for a living. So Vinnie sold Kirby vacuum cleaners.

Athens Banner-Herald - The demand for lightweight vacuum cleaners is high, and owner Jim Tomlinson says Singer Sewing and Vacuum Center has recently Tomlinson says customers don’t pay any more for the durability of all Royal, Oreck, and Riccar machines. Not only are

Minneapolis Star Tribune - multi-purpose hammer from Stanley that can be used to tear apart wallboard, Gorilla Tape, the Dyson Root 6 hand vacuum cleaner it named the Herman Miller “Leaf” LED lamp for glare reduction, the Bosch Lithehon 10.8-volt pocket driver , the Oreck XL

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WDAM-TV - Vacuum cleaner maker Oreck Corporation says it will close its manufacturing plant on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, moving the jobs north to the company’s operation in Tennessee. The 450 jobs in Long Beach will be phased out. Full Story > Doctor to face

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Fisher denies conflict with Dann over vacuum-cleaner merger
Columbus Dispatch - Fisher denies conflict with Dann over vacuum-cleaner merger Industries, which wanted to buy the Hoover vacuum business from Whirlpool Corp., also makes Dirt Devil and Royal floor

Future of Hoover plant in doubt
Independent - In addition, Techtronic, a home products company, will combine Hoover with its existing Dirt Devil and Royal operations to Techtronic’s portfolio of floor-care products would hurt consumers in creating an anticompetitive field in the vacuum cleaner

New owner swept up by Hoover
Cincinnati Enquirer - Executives promise that the historic Hoover name not only will coexist with the company s Dirt Devil and Royal brands Ray Elsoffer with All Makes Vacuum Cleaner Co. in Cleveland Heights, who has been in the business more than 35 years, said he

Me pay? I didn t ask to be buried in bubble wrap
Times Online - sighted governments (local and national), the vast retail chains, the cost-cutting manufacturing industries, the Royal Two years ago I bought a vacuum cleaner from a manufacturer with a reputation for reliability. After exactly two years it broke

News.com.au - The 11th in line to the throne and daughter of Princess Anne becomes the most senior royal to be recognised in the list. Inventor James Dyson, famed for his vacuum cleaner, receives a knighthood, while while actor Hugh Laurie, who shot to

Future of Hoover plant in doubt
Independent - In addition, Techtronic, a home products company, will combine Hoover with its existing Dirt Devil and Royal operations to Techtronic’s portfolio of floor-care products would hurt consumers in creating an anticompetitive field in the vacuum cleaner

Me pay? I didn t ask to be buried in bubble wrap
Times Online - sighted governments (local and national), the vast retail chains, the cost-cutting manufacturing industries, the Royal Two years ago I bought a vacuum cleaner from a manufacturer with a reputation for reliability. After exactly two years it broke

Five decades of rocking and 62 hits earn Rod CBE
Guardian Unlimited - the knighthoods is inventor and billionaire James Dyson, who revolutionised domestic appliances with his bagless vacuum cleaner. who became the first man to reach the geographic and magnetic North and South Poles, is made a Lieutenant of the Royal

Politicians keep hands off as stars take top billing
Times Online - James Dyson, the inventor who revolutionised the vacuum cleaner, is among the knighthoods. Bernard Matthews, the Norfolk turkey farmer, already a CBE, is appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for services to the Duke of Edinburgh Award

New owner: Hoover brand will grow
Boston Globe - Executives promise that the historic Hoover name not only will coexist with the company’s Dirt Devil and Royal brands Ray Elsoffer, with All Makes Vacuum Cleaner Co. in Cleveland Heights, has been in the business more than 35 years and said he

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“Once” explores music of new Dubliners 
“Once” is a put-your-arm-around-your-girlfriend kind of movie. A modern-day musical, “Once” could best be described as a happenstance meeting between two lonely people who wind up making sweet music - literally. He’s a self-described “broken hearted hoover fixer sucker guy” - working in his father’s vacuum cleaner repair shop by day, playing his own music on the streets of Dublin by night.

Techtronic Industries To Complete Hoover Acquisition; Will Combine Hoover With Dirt Devil, Creating Largest Floor Care … 
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. today announced that it will complete its acquisition of the Hoover floor care business from Whirlpool Corporation when the transaction closes on January 31, 2007 pursuant to the terms of the definitive purchase agreement announced December 7, 2006.

Techtronic Industries to Complete Hoover Acquisition 
Will Combine Hoover with Dirt Devil Creating Largest Floor Care Business in

Flyer cleans up with sponsor deal 
Here’s the Ferryhill Flyer as you’ve never seen him before . . . wearing washing up gloves doing the dishes.