Vacuum Cleaners

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

A Growing Aversion to Ticker Symbols
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

Holiday Hypocrisy
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

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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.

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

Hoover workers trying risky business move to save jobs
San Jose Mercury News - Hoover, which also makes other floor care products, traces its origin to a vacuum cleaner that a janitor, Murray Spangler, designed in 1907. Spangler formed a company with William H. “Boss” Hoover, the husband of a family friend. The 1,500 hourly jobs

Updated Jan. 16
Orleans Online - Alex Poulin had a huge game both at the plate and at third base where he did his best impression of a Hoover vacuum cleaner. During one two inning stretch he threw out four potential base runners. The team now has four days to prepare for the

Future of Hoover plant in doubt
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

Eric Kinney, President
PRWeb - Speakers slated to present include Gary Hoover, Founder of Hoovers Online and BOOKSTOP, Angelos Angelou, Founder and CEO Vacuum Cleaner and Miele Appliance Dealer Potomac Vacuums Warns Miele Price Increase in October Potomac Vacuums and Miele

UA students test-drive ideas in competition to turn GM SUV into energy
Akron Beacon Journal - The Hoover Co. sale is in the bag. The state of Ohio and Techtronic Industries Ltd. have reached a deal that will allow Techtronic to complete the $107 million acquisition of North Canton vacuum cleaner manufacturer Hoover from Whirlpool Corp. by 5 p

HONG KONG, Jan. 31 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. ( Nachrichten ) (”TTI” or “the Group”) (HKEx: 669; ADR: TTNDY) today announced that it will complete its acquisition of the Hoover floor care business from Whirlpool Corporation (”Whirlpool”) when the transaction closes on 31st January, 2007 (U.S. Eastern Standard Time) pursuant to the terms of the definitive …

Hoover Company Fined $750,000 for Failing to Report Fire Hazard with Vacuum Cleaners 
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Hoover Company Inc., of North Canton, Ohio, has agreed to pay a $750,000 civil penalty. The penalty, which the Commission has provisionally accepted, settles allegations that the company failed to report to CPSC the sale of vacuum cleaners with defective on-off switches that can overheat and cause the vacuum cleaner to catch …

Hoover’s future 
CLEVELAND - In England, the brand is so well-known that people refer to cleaning floors as “hoovering.”

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

Techtronic Industries to Complete Hoover Acquisition 
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 31st January, 2007 pursuant to the terms of the definitive purchase agreement announced 7th December, 2006.

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.

The Low-Carbon Diet (or how to lose half a tonne in just one month) 
Global warming is alarming, but there’s no need to be defeatist: our future is in our own hands.

PRWeb - Speakers slated to present include Gary Hoover, Founder of Hoovers Online and BOOKSTOP, Angelos Angelou, Founder and CEO Vacuum Cleaner and Miele Appliance Dealer Potomac Vacuums Warns Miele Price Increase in October Potomac Vacuums and Miele

UA students test-drive ideas in competition to turn GM SUV into energy
Akron Beacon Journal - The Hoover Co. sale is in the bag. The state of Ohio and Techtronic Industries Ltd. have reached a deal that will allow Techtronic to complete the $107 million acquisition of North Canton vacuum cleaner manufacturer Hoover from Whirlpool Corp. by 5 p

Future of Hoover plant in doubt
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

Holiday Hypocrisy
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

Hoover workers trying risky business move to save jobs
San Jose Mercury News - Hoover, which also makes other floor care products, traces its origin to a vacuum cleaner that a janitor, Murray Spangler, designed in 1907. Spangler formed a company with William H. “Boss” Hoover, the husband of a family friend. The 1,500 hourly jobs

BBC Business - Mr Dyson has previously said that critical comments have little effect on him - and he is not shy of fighting for what he believes in, taking on vacuum-cleaner firm Hoover in a legal battle over patent infringement in 1999. Despite selling products

New Owner: Hoover Brand Will Grow
Forbes - Ray Elsoffer, with All Makes Vacuum Cleaner Co. in Cleveland Heights, has been in the business more than 35 years and 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 very high

9,300 Key customers get security warning
Cleveland Plain Dealer - 2:00 p.m. KeyCorp has notified 9,300 customers in six states, including Ohio, that private information about them was taken when a laptop computer was stolen from an outside vendor. The information may include Social Security numbers, according to

Eric Kinney, President
PRWeb - Speakers slated to present include Gary Hoover, Founder of Hoovers Online and BOOKSTOP, Angelos Angelou, Founder and CEO Vacuum Cleaner and Miele Appliance Dealer Potomac Vacuums Warns Miele Price Increase in October Potomac Vacuums and Miele

On the mend
Guardian Unlimited - parts has never been easier; the internet is a treasure trove of dishwasher wheels, microwave turntable motors and vacuum-cleaner The window is full of such attractions as CB radios (still big with farmers, apparently), torches, TV aerials and hoover

Hoover workers trying risky business move to save jobs
San Jose Mercury News - Hoover, which also makes other floor care products, traces its origin to a vacuum cleaner that a janitor, Murray Spangler, designed in 1907. Spangler formed a company with William H. “Boss” Hoover, the husband of a family friend. The 1,500 hourly jobs

Ohio awards floor-care products company tax abatement
MSN MoneyCentral - Techtronic’s expansion includes the acquisition of Whirlpool Corp.’s Hoover Co. vacuum cleaner business and its facility in North Canton. The $107 million deal closed Wednesday. With the addition of Hoover, Techtronic’s floor-care products portfolio

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

9,300 Key customers get security warning
Cleveland Plain Dealer - 2:00 p.m. KeyCorp has notified 9,300 customers in six states, including Ohio, that private information about them was taken when a laptop computer was stolen from an outside vendor. The information may include Social Security numbers, according to

Updated Jan. 16
Orleans Online - Alex Poulin had a huge game both at the plate and at third base where he did his best impression of a Hoover vacuum cleaner. During one two inning stretch he threw out four potential base runners. The team now has four days to prepare for the

Eric Kinney, President
PRWeb - Speakers slated to present include Gary Hoover, Founder of Hoovers Online and BOOKSTOP, Angelos Angelou, Founder and CEO Vacuum Cleaner and Miele Appliance Dealer Potomac Vacuums Warns Miele Price Increase in October Potomac Vacuums and Miele

Hoover workers trying risky business move to save jobs
San Jose Mercury News - Hoover, which also makes other floor care products, traces its origin to a vacuum cleaner that a janitor, Murray Spangler, designed in 1907. Spangler formed a company with William H. “Boss” Hoover, the husband of a family friend. The 1,500 hourly jobs

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Hoover Company Inc., of North Canton, Ohio, has agreed to pay a $750,000 civil penalty.

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.

Ohio AG lets Whirlpool’s Hoover sale proceed 
The Ohio Attorney General’s office dropped plans Tuesday to file an antitrust lawsuit to block the sale of Whirlpool Corp.’s Hoover vacuum business to a Chinese home products company.

Hoover deal is OK with state 
Ohio has decided not to fight a Hong Kong companys planned purchase of Hoover Co. Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. recently made a deal to buy Hoover and has pledged to put a new headquarters and research center for the company in Ohio.

A Growing Aversion to Ticker Symbols 
At least for now, it appears that the call for more transparency may be private equity?s best calling card.

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

Hoover workers trying risky business move to save jobs
San Jose Mercury News - Hoover, which also makes other floor care products, traces its origin to a vacuum cleaner that a janitor, Murray Spangler, designed in 1907. Spangler formed a company with William H. “Boss” Hoover, the husband of a family friend. The 1,500 hourly jobs

Hoover sale is official today
Akron Beacon Journal - The Hoover Co. sale is in the bag. The state of Ohio and Techtronic Industries Ltd. have reached a deal that will allow Techtronic to complete the $107 million acquisition of North Canton vacuum cleaner manufacturer Hoover from Whirlpool Corp. by 5 p

Techtronic Industries To Complete Hoover Acquisition Will
MSN MoneyCentral - TTNDY) today announced that it will complete its acquisition of the Hoover floor care business from Whirlpool The Dirt Devil(R) Hand Vac has grown to become Royal’s signature product and the largest selling hand-held vacuum cleaner in

Knighthood for Dyson entrepreneur
BBC Business - Mr Dyson has previously said that critical comments have little effect on him - and he is not shy of fighting for what he believes in, taking on vacuum-cleaner firm Hoover in a legal battle over patent infringement in 1999. Despite selling products

Holiday Hypocrisy
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

New owner: Hoover brand will grow
Boston Globe - Ray Elsoffer, with All Makes Vacuum Cleaner Co. in Cleveland Heights, has been in the business more than 35 years and 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 very high

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

New owner keeping Hoover brand name
Boston Globe - Ray Elsoffer with All Makes Vacuum Cleaner Co. in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 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 very

Hoover workers trying risky business move to save jobs
San Jose Mercury News - Hoover, which also makes other floor care products, traces its origin to a vacuum cleaner that a janitor, Murray Spangler, designed in 1907. Spangler formed a company with William H. “Boss” Hoover, the husband of a family friend. The 1,500 hourly jobs

Hoover sale is official today
Akron Beacon Journal - The Hoover Co. sale is in the bag. The state of Ohio and Techtronic Industries Ltd. have reached a deal that will allow Techtronic to complete the $107 million acquisition of North Canton vacuum cleaner manufacturer Hoover from Whirlpool Corp. by 5 p

9,300 Key customers get security warning
Cleveland Plain Dealer - 2:00 p.m. KeyCorp has notified 9,300 customers in six states, including Ohio, that private information about them was taken when a laptop computer was stolen from an outside vendor. The information may include Social Security numbers, according to

Techtronic Industries To Complete Hoover Acquisition Will
MSN MoneyCentral - TTNDY) today announced that it will complete its acquisition of the Hoover floor care business from Whirlpool The Dirt Devil(R) Hand Vac has grown to become Royal’s signature product and the largest selling hand-held vacuum cleaner in