The Hoover Company is an American vacuum cleaner company that started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-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. The Hoover Company in the United States was part of the Whirlpool Corporation but sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries for $107 million. Hoover UK/Europe split from Hoover U.S. in 1993 and was acquired by Candy, a company based in Brugherio, Italy. It currently uses the same Hoover logo Techtronic uses outside Europe with the slogan "Generation Future". Currently Techtronic Industries is owned by Bain Capital.
In addition to 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 (which is also owned by Bain Capital) remains a major player in the European white goods and floor care sectors in a number of countries.
Created and produced by The Hoover Company, North Canton Ohio, 1963.
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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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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company
00:00:57 1 History
00:02:44 2 Henry Dreyfuss and Hoove...
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company
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
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
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.
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company
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
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
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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.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/hoover-set-to-lose-pounds-20m-over-free-flights-fiasco-task-force-moves-in-to-sort-out-chaos-after-1500925.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/inspectors-will-examine-files-on-free-flights-deal-trading-standards-officers-to-investigate-1452560.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/great-financial-disasters-of-our-time-the-hoover-fiasco-1171711.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotion
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b6ys9
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/210917/lot-learn-hoover-free-flights-fiasco
http://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/09/29/Legal-action-over-Hoovers-free-flight-deal-ruled-out/2489749275200/
https://books.google.com/books?id=S7MHQWZqZBcC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=hoover+free+flight&source=bl&ots=-Q5qvKZpy_&sig=2RIy5oXW_Fa6p5jwDDv1cOLl43k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj96p-h3onRAhUUTWMKHSntDIUQ6AEIlgEwEw#v=onepage&q=hoover%20free%20flight&f=false
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Giving away free stuff with a purchase is a good way to bolster sales and can result in a tidy increase in profits, provided you follow the general rule of making sure the long term projected profit from the promotion is greater than the cost of the giveaway. Appliance giant Hoover learned this seemingly obvious lesson first hand in 1992 when they inexplicably decided to give away free flights worth several times more than most of the products they were selling as part of what has become known as Hoovergate- one of the most disastrous marketing campaigns of all time, today taught in marketing text books the world over.
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Sources:
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-09/news/vw-21102_1_two-free-airline-tickets
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3704669.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/hoover-set-to-lose-pounds-20m-over-free-flights-fiasco-task-force-moves-in-to-sort-out-chaos-after-1500925.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/inspectors-will-examine-files-on-free-flights-deal-trading-standards-officers-to-investigate-1452560.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/great-financial-disasters-of-our-time-the-hoover-fiasco-1171711.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotion
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b6ys9
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/210917/lot-learn-hoover-free-flights-fiasco
http://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/09/29/Legal-action-over-Hoovers-free-flight-deal-ruled-out/2489749275200/
https://books.google.com/books?id=S7MHQWZqZBcC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=hoover+free+flight&source=bl&ots=-Q5qvKZpy_&sig=2RIy5oXW_Fa6p5jwDDv1cOLl43k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj96p-h3onRAhUUTWMKHSntDIUQ6AEIlgEwEw#v=onepage&q=hoover%20free%20flight&f=false
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https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-158184140/stock-photo-stack-of-traveling-luggage-in-airport-terminal-building-and-passenger-plane-flying-over-urban-scene
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-129818087/stock-photo-daily-news-newspaper-headline-reading-read-all-about-it-concept-for-event-news-headline
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-112339427/stock-photo-burnout-and-work-backlog
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-119977157/stock-photo-popularity-magnet-word-pulling-attracting-people-audience-viewers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company#/media/File:Hoover_Logo.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company#/media/File:Hoover_model_29_ad.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoover_1990_Vacuum_cleaner_img_1398.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoover_1960_Vacuum_cleaner_img_1403.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virgin_Atlantic,_G-VNEW_Boeing_787_Dreamliner_(16901493414).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_767-323_ER_American_Airlines_N392AN_(8398562619).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010-07-08_A319_BA_G-EUOI_EDDF_01.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91591049@N00/14497062658
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SCGC is still to this day, and now more than ever before, on the forward tip of innovation in quality guitar making. Richard, Carolyn and the crew are a team of wonderful people who love the art, the science and the craftsmanship of lutherie as much as they love the good that people can do in the world with their music.
Check out the guitars and the story of Santa Cruz Guitar Company at https://santacruzguitar.com/
Santa Cruz Guitar Company was founded in 1976 by Richard Hoover, a renowned luthier who helped usher in the rise of boutique acoustic guitar making around the world.
SCGC is still to this day, and now more than ever before, on the forward tip of innovation in quality guitar making. Richard, Carolyn and the crew are a team of wonderful people who love the art, the science and the craftsmanship of lutherie as much as they love the good that people can do in the world with their music.
Check out the guitars and the story of Santa Cruz Guitar Company at https://santacruzguitar.com/
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company
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
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts
Speaking Rate: 0.9159581920055729
Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
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.
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Giving away free stuff with a purchase is a good way to bolster sales and can result in a tidy increase in profits, provided you follow the general rule of making sure the long term projected profit from the promotion is greater than the cost of the giveaway. Appliance giant Hoover learned this seemingly obvious lesson first hand in 1992 when they inexplicably decided to give away free flights worth several times more than most of the products they were selling as part of what has become known as Hoovergate- one of the most disastrous marketing campaigns of all time, today taught in marketing text books the world over.
Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/12/time-company-nearly-bankrupted-offering-free-flights-america-bought-vacuum-cleaner/
Sources:
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-09/news/vw-21102_1_two-free-airline-tickets
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3704669.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/hoover-set-to-lose-pounds-20m-over-free-flights-fiasco-task-force-moves-in-to-sort-out-chaos-after-1500925.html
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Image Credit:
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-96684395/stock-photo-free-word-on-tickets-in-a-roll-to-enter-and-win-a-contest-or-raffle-at-no-charge-or-cost
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-139502756/stock-photo-graph-up-profit-arrow-on-white-background-3d-illustration
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-145251929/stock-photo-globe-world-map-travel-explore-destination-concept
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https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-94827260/stock-photo-desk-office-business-financial-accounting-calculate%2C-graph-analysis
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-114180944/stock-photo-businessman-signing-a-contract
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Santa Cruz Guitar Company was founded in 1976 by Richard Hoover, a renowned luthier who helped usher in the rise of boutique acoustic guitar making around the world.
SCGC is still to this day, and now more than ever before, on the forward tip of innovation in quality guitar making. Richard, Carolyn and the crew are a team of wonderful people who love the art, the science and the craftsmanship of lutherie as much as they love the good that people can do in the world with their music.
Check out the guitars and the story of Santa Cruz Guitar Company at https://santacruzguitar.com/
The Hoover Company is an American vacuum cleaner company that started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-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. The Hoover Company in the United States was part of the Whirlpool Corporation but sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries for $107 million. Hoover UK/Europe split from Hoover U.S. in 1993 and was acquired by Candy, a company based in Brugherio, Italy. It currently uses the same Hoover logo Techtronic uses outside Europe with the slogan "Generation Future". Currently Techtronic Industries is owned by Bain Capital.
In addition to 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 (which is also owned by Bain Capital) remains a major player in the European white goods and floor care sectors in a number of countries.
breaking hearts, breaking bones breaking into your home breaking arms, breaking legs follow orders, breaking heads meet me at the usual place no a hundred yards down the road just following orders kid I just do as I'm told so scream if you wanna I'm the only one that's gonna hear beg if you wanna I'm the only one that's gonna hear cry if you wanna I'm the only one that's gonna hear and I promise I won't tell walk into the boss' mansion make his funeral closed casket except for me and you not a dry eye in the room but the tears won't be sincere now these bullets justify the end hope the company is with me