Category: Hoover

Calls have been made for a “serious plan of action” to support the 337 people affected by Hoover’s decision to close its factory in Merthyr Tydfil. Assembly Member for the area, Huw Lewis, made the calls after confirmation was made that the plant would cease production on 14 March.

Wale Online has reported that any hope of saving Hoover production workers’ jobs are fading fast. Meetings with management have so far failed to give any glimmer of hope, says John Jones, Unite union convenor at the Merthyr Tydfil plant. Working five days but getting paid for four is one idea the…

Hoover Candy have confirmed that up to 337 jobs will be lost at their facility at Merthyr Tydfill. Unions have held crisis talks with managers at the Hoover headquarters in south Wales after Candy (who own Hoover) announced up to 337 manufacturing jobs could be lost. The company, which makes wash…

The BBC has reported that concerns have been raised about the possibility of job losses at the head office of Hoover in Merthyr Tydfil. Welsh Assembly Member Huw Lewis says he understands an announcement will be made soon on a plant employing 500. Hoover makes washing machines and tumble driers i…

Has Orange done a Hoover in its free US flight offer. There can only be one Hoover free flight offer. The king of marketing ‘Cock Ups’. It cost Hoover’s parent the Maytag Corporation £48 million & a lot of top executives their jobs & some red faces. Whilst Hoover got over 200,000 applicants flig…

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. TTI is combining…

Attorney General Marc Dann is looking into antitrust concerns that have arisen based on a Hong Kong company’s planned purchase of the North Canton-based Hoover vacuum-cleaner company from Whirlpool. 

Whirlpool Corp. said on Thursday it would sell its Hoover vacuum cleaner business to Hong Kong’s Techtronic Industries Co. for $107 million to focus on its core appliance business. Techtronic, maker of Ryobi and Milwaukee tools, sees Hoover as a good fit with its own vacuum lineup, including Dirt…

Several parties are interested in buying North Canton-based Hoover Co., but the union that represents about 800 company workers is not among them. Jim Repace, president of Local 1985 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said Monday that the union did not bid for Hoover.

Over a decade since the daddy of all promotions the Infamous ‘Hoover Free Flight promotion’, a free flight offer by Landround Travel & Linguaphone gets Consumer activist & campaigner Harry Cichy’s back up.