When David Oreck started selling Oreck vacuum cleaners weighing less than 9 pounds in the 1970s, rivals scoffed that anything that light must be flimsy. Mr. Oreck, a self-trained master marketer of ...

One of the nation's best known salesmen came back to the Northland, spreading his message of business expertise and opportunity in America. And though he didn't make a pitch for his 8-pound upright, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Not many lectures on successful business tactics open with a scene from "Casablanca," but David ...

TESS VIGELAND: We saw an item in the New York Times today that gave us pause. The Oreck Corporation — it make vacuums, among other things — is shutting down its factory in Long Beach, Mississippi. The ...

Oreck Corp. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization May 6 Family%27s bid is only one so far for company in Bankruptcy Court If successful%2C the family hopes to focus on U.S. manufacturing and a U.S.

Company investing in consumer research%2C product development and marketing Oreck%27s share of upright vacuum market slipped to 4%25 New products include bagless vacuum%2C air purifier and a hybrid ...

When storied vacuum cleaner maker Oreck filed for bankruptcy on Monday, founder David Oreck was saddened. The 89-year-old vacuum cleaner magnate is hoping to get the company back in the family after ...

FLINT TWP, MI — Mark Kloeckner ended his decades-long career this week as he closed the doors for good of his vacuum cleaner store in Genesee County. Flint Oreck Vacuums, G4270 Miller Road, in Flint ...

Marshall Oreck, one of two brothers who ran the company bearing their surname that makes vacuum cleaners and other cleaning products, died Friday at Touro Infirmary. He was 92. He died of ...

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