The Hoover Company | Wikipedia audio article

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00:00:57 1 History
00:02:44 2 Henry Dreyfuss and Hoover
00:04:21 3 Development
00:13:02 4 Slogans
00:15:55 5 Popular Hoover machines
00:20:50 6 The word "hoover"
00:21:35 7 The Hoover Historical Center
00:22:15 8 Ownership transitions
00:23:55 9 Hoover in Australia
00:26:48 10 Free flights promotion
00:27:33 11 Current products
00:28:12 12 Competition
00:29:05 13 Patent issue with Dyson
00:29:25 14 See also



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SUMMARY
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Hoover is a vacuum cleaner company founded in Ohio in the US. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and mostly in the 20th century it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the Hoover brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Hoover was part of the Whirlpool Corporation but was sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries for $107 million. Hoover Europe/UK split from Hoover US in 1993 and was acquired by Techtronic Industries, a company based in Hong Kong.
In addition to producing floorcare products, Hoover was also an iconic domestic appliance brand in Europe, particularly well known for its washing machines and tumble dryers in the UK and Ireland, and also had significant sales in many parts of Europe. Today, the Hoover Europe brand, as part of the portfolio of brands owned by Candy Group, remains a major player in the European white goods and floor care sectors in a number of countries.