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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
Joined: Aug 22, 2007
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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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CarmineD
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #13 Mar 29, 2008 7:38 am |
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Forbes is my source. Of course, dyson is Forbes source. Now, the question of whether the AirBlade sales are included in the $1B sales is more relevant. $140,000 is immaterial on $1B. $140,000,000 is very material. Assume for talking purposes the $140,000,000 is not in the $1B and the vacuum data is segregated [probably a good assumption]. Divide the $64 Million [dyson net profit] by wholesale units of dyson vacuums sold. If you reasonably estimate 2 Million [USA] and 4 Million [worldwide] sold [based on NPD data], the dyson profit per unit is $16 to $32. Say 3 MIllion worldwide [more reasonably], the net dyson profit is about $22 per vacuum sold at wholesale. On the low side for profits for $1B in annual sales? ESPECIALLY AFTER 15 YEARS of operation. Sales increased 10 percent in 2007. Dyson prices went from $400 in 2002 to $500 plus in 2007. That's 25 percent increase. Probably at least 10 percent passed on to retailers. Did dyson unit sales increase? No, probably not. In fact, they may have gone down if sales dollars increased 10 percent on price increases of 25 percent.  And that's with increased markets and countries of sale! Dyson would fare better as a retailer with $250 gross profit per vacuum sold before overhead and operating expenses. The only problem now is that consumers aren't buying anymore. Carmine D.
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CarmineD
Joined: Dec 31, 2007
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Re: Dyson AirBlade
Reply #14 Apr 5, 2008 5:09 pm |
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.....how about the airblade have they sold more than 50 units yet,I rather wipe my hands off on my trousers,,,,,,,HA, HA, HA,
SELL SELL SELL,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
THE -MOLE many many more than 50 units........ Airblade Sadly, the number and percentage of adult men who don't wash their hands after doing that particular function is mindboggling. I don't think Mr. Dyson factored that into his business model for the airblade. I don't foresee dyson staying in the hand dryer business for many years. Why? It's not his mainstay business, vacuums are. In the economic conditions dyson will face in the years ahead, he can't afford to hold onto the airblade. Why? Let's look at the facts: It's going on 2 years old. It costs $840 per unit to produce. Sells for $1400. Dyson sold 100,000 units. Sales are $140,000,000. Costs $84,000,000. Profit is $56,000,000. Not accounting for the 1000 units given away at a cost of $840,000. On vacuum sales of $4 Billion [estimate for 2007] worldwide annually, who needs the headaches of an added $28 Million a year on a totally unrelated product. Divest. Sell the airblade off to a company which is in the business of restroom facility products. Cut future airblade losses. Concentrate on vacuum sales to make up the $28 Million generated per year on the airblades. Carmine D.
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