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Acerone
 
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #3 Mar 5, 2008 7:08 am |
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CarmineD
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #4 Mar 5, 2008 7:25 am |
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Hello Ace: This is old my man. June 2007. Where's it been? NYC just added a bunch of public restrooms, plan to add more, and other cities are following suit. The airblade didn't get the nod. Couple of notes on the old article: It appears the users are women. A point raised by a gent on one of the Vacuum Forums is that the small airblade drying well would pose a problem for men with hairy man arms. Recall: I believe it was Gandalf who did. Second: The unsanitary water/mess left on and around the airblade. Takes a custodian to monitor and clean. Labor costs. Rubbermaid recently entered the bathroom washroom industry by acquiring a company well intrenched in non-touch and sanitary bathroom devices. Seems it has the hold on the market despite dyson's entrance in September 2006 with the airblade. More common are the touchless paper towels that push out a towel from the the motion of hands. Sure it uses trees for the paper. But in a the current housing market with no wood beingh harvested for new home building and/or aluminum studs for frames, what else should be done with these trees? No, not newsapers. Most get news on-line and TV. Paper towels! Carmine D. |
MrApollinax
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #5 Mar 5, 2008 9:57 am |
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I do a lot of travel for work and I've seen them in quite a few airport restrooms.
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CarmineD
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #6 Mar 5, 2008 12:52 pm |
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I do a lot of travel for work and I've seen them in quite a few airport restrooms.
Mr. A:
Are the airblades standalone dryers in the A/P restrooms and/or do they coexist with the conventional hand dryers and paper towels? Carmine D.
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MrApollinax
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #7 Mar 5, 2008 1:06 pm |
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Mr. A:</p><p>Are the airblades standalone dryers in the A/P restrooms and/or do they coexist with the conventional hand dryers and paper towels?</p><p>Carmine D.
In all the cases that I can recall the airblades have replaced the conventional hand driers. However every airport restroom I have ever been in has paper towels available regardless of the paperless hand drying system being used.
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CarmineD
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #10 Mar 27, 2008 6:47 pm |
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Here is a synopsis of dyson Airblade [hand dryer] sales according to a reliable source: Since it's launch in the summer of 2007, total Airblades sold are 100,000 Total sales in dollars: $140,000 Cost to dyson to produce each unit: $840 Retail price: $1400 {about 3X as much as traditional hand dryers]. It has not taken off as quickly and well as dyson hoped. Carmine D.
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HARDSELL
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #11 Mar 27, 2008 7:46 pm |
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Here is a synopsis of dyson Airblade [hand drier] sales according to a reliable source: Since it's launch in the summer of 2007, total Airblades sold are 100,000 Total sales in dollars: $140,000 Cost to dyson to produce each unit: $840 Retail price: $1400 It has not taken off as quickly and well as dyson hoped. Carmine D. How long can Dyson lose $838.60 per unit?
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DysonInventsBig
Location: USA
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #12 Mar 28, 2008 9:28 pm |
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Acerone, James Dyson was interviewed in Forbes recently and the topic of conversation was his Airblade. Here. Per the Forbes Dyson interview (link above)… . Airblade - $140,000,000 in sales: When I first linked and posted the Forbes interview of James Dyson and him talking of his Airblade, etc. it read “$140,000 in sales”. It has since been corrected and now reads “$140,000,000” in sales. Adding 3 zeros helps . Money and growth: "Dyson, whose Malmesbury, England, company netted $64 million after taxes on sales that rose 10% last year, to $1 billion." ---------- In the past, Forbes UK online reported Dyson sales around $1.2 billion. Now it looks like he is only selling $1 billion worth of goods inventions. How many can say their privately and solely owned 15 year old business does $1 billion per year? J DIB
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