Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/04/cndyson104.xml

Results on year to December 2006 :-

• Profits up 19 per cent to £115m
• Sales up 9 per cent to £514.7m
• R&D spend increased, up £20m to £70m

I'll just say that Dyson had a tremendous 2007..............   

CarmineD wrote: 

My personal indicator for judging Dyson's successes would be how much value by way of new inventions they can add to their moulded plastic / twisted metal components, the implied benefits and how much they can convince people to pay for the end result. Units sold comparisons are generally meaningless in all premium goods sectors that I can think of, unless you're directly comparing with products of the same selling price.

CarmineD wrote:
I'm not sure of the finer details - Google News search is proving a pain to use at the moment. I understand that they still needed to address the concerns as before and that there was a public consultation in March of last year.

Hello M00seUK:

You're perspective on personal product and company success is very different than financial success.  But welcome.  I like to see the numbers myself. 

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:
T'is true. If Dyson was a public quoted company, I'd agree that the financials would be different.

CarmineD wrote:
FLOOD TESTS AT DYSON SITE

Thanks M00seUK.

Reading the locals' comments about Sir Jaydee's school plans and geographic location and about the new generation of vacuums is very insightful.   

I'd have to say based on these select few comments that the honey moon period for dyson in the UK is certainly over.  The billionaire business man is no longer viewed as the little guy with an idea who makes good.

Carmine D.

Here is a synopsis of dyson sales and profit for 2007 according to a reliable source:

Total sales in dollars: $1 Billion

Net profit after taxes: $64 Million

Increase in sales for 2007 over 2006: 10 percent

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

I believe you rang the death knell for Dyson by 2007.  What happened?

HARDSELL wrote:

Hello HARDSELL:

Good question.  If the 2007 results I posted are valid [I believe the source is very reliable], it appears there are erroneous/contradictory financial results and sales data reported here recently for dyson.  What happened?  Is the difference the phenomenon of inventory on hand vice actual sales to customers?  Seems like a very high inventory on hand which is entirely possible seeing DC07,14 and 15 models still advertised and sold. But I sincerely doubt, since dyson counts shipments to retailers as sales [which would include end of year dyson retailers' inventory on hand and unsold].   

It appears from the data I posted that the 2 Million dyson units [approximately] are worldwide and not in the USA, as previously reported.  [At $1B in sales using an average sale price per dyson vacuum of $500 the result is 2 million].  Don't know if the $140,000 in AirBlade sales are included in the $1B sales amount.  Factoring in the percent of USA sales only, then the dyson vacuum market share in the USA [by units] is reduced from the 10 percent recently posted [according to NPD we were told], to probably 4-5 percent of total unit sales for 2007 in the USA.  That's seems reasonable and unimpressive unless quoted in dollar terms.

Carmine D.