Website: www.hoover.com
Founded: 1908
Country of origin: USA
Brand fact file 1: Hoover is America’s number one name in vacuum cleaners and the leading manufacturer of floor care appliances.
Brand fact file 2: The first vacuum cleaners were sold in 1908 when only 10 per cent of homes were wired for electricity.
Brand fact file: The first Hoover’s were imported to Britain in 1912.
Brand fact file 4: WH Hoover unwittingly realized that demonstrations sold stock. He said ‘I would stock up hardware stores with cleaners, go out two months later and find none of them moved. I would get busy and demonstrate them to housewives and move the stock.’
