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Oct 5, 2009...

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Hello M00seUK:

With the dollar tumbling, and the USA supposedly dyson's best vacuum market [two-thirds of annual sales by last count] now is not a good time to launch a new vacuum product. 

The article, thanks for the link, also gives some more insight into James' selection as technology tsar.  Confirms my observation it's all about politics and popularity.

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:
We'll have to see what said new product will be - I personally think it's unlikely to be a vacuum.

From the outside there appears little in the way of loss of conferences at Dyson of late. By comparison, Apple continues plowing money in R&D and is due to refresh it's high-margin iMac lines for the holiday season, with rumours of larger sized iPod 'tablet' format entering the market in early 2010. If you have the right product, the buyers are still there; you don't stop innovating and launching new products because of blips in the market. In my view the only people with something to fear are the manufacturers trying to sell high ticket items which feature little in the way of innovative features.

As for James' selection, it's a two way street. The Tory's get a recognised name on board and James get a certain level of influence. It was also a good speech, with James holding up a digital motor against and brushed motor as an example of the practical gains they are making.

M00seUK wrote:

I would hardly call the current downtown, which started in the first quarter of 2008 and has worsened since then, as a "blip in the market."  If you do, then more power to you.

In business, timing is all important not just product.  The $800 DC26 is now at $590.  It's price is following same direction as the US dollar's value.  If pure currency laws prevailed in the market place, the $800 MSRP should be $900 based on the 12 percent decline in the value of the US dollar internationally since President Obama took office.

With the unemployment rate in the USA at a national average of 10 percent, and climbing higher, with regions of the country, like mine, and many others, approaching 15 percent and climbing higher, US consumers can't spend what they don't have.  If you argue that they buy on credit, I offer to you the latest figures showing the steepest credit retrenchment among US buyers since such measures have been reported.  If you strug this off as a blip, again more power to you. 

Companies do what they always do whether in good times and/or bad.  It is the underlying reason for the huge bankruptcies, bailouts and failures in hard economic times.  Failure to adjust business decisions and actions to changing times and habits in consumer spending. 

The companies that are predisposed to fail are the ones who limit their options in the good times and then fall on bad times.  Does the name Starbucks come to mind?

Carmine D.

M00seUK wrote:

Like I said originally, it's all about politics and popularity.  The title is meaningless.

Carmine D.

MM I wonder if he will shift production back to the UK now.

vacmanuk wrote:

Does dyson own the dyson plant in Malaysia? 

Carmine D.

M00seUK wrote:
I hope we see non-vacuum inventions coming sooner than later.  He certainly isn't spending $90m annually on vacuum R&D.

Do you have link or any video of James Dyson giving his speech?

Thanks,
DIB

procare wrote:
...I agree and doing whatever it takes to put people back to work "making things."  I do wonder how many U.S. manufacturing jobs were killed off at Walmart's "suggestion" and/or intimidation.

As for manufacturing and commitment...
    Many in the UK have isolated and exploited the last page to the Dyson manufacturing in his homeland story.  The facts are, Sir James Dyson initially chose to support his country and countrymen over profits, that is - not choosing cheaper foreign manufacturing in the beginning.  It’s my understanding he employed some 4000 employees at one point and spent $150m of his own money updating and/or expanding his manufacturing only to close down a year later.

    Are you aware of the Dyson School of Design Innovation that he wanted to start in the city of Bath?  He pledged $12m and spent $3m towards the school only to have Bath’s “men in small chairs” string him along for years.  So long that his government’s supporters tired and pulled their matching funds which killed the school.  Two other nearby cities wanted the Dyson School after hearing of Bath's double-cross.

    He has published books on the history of inventions, had/has a corporate web page dedicated to helping inventors, his friends are inventors (the Mini for example) and has given many, many speeches and talks to anyone who will listen of the need to bring inventions back to the UK.  The James Dyson Award is another selfless tool used to spark interest in invention.

Did you read or see the BBC coverage of a Malmesbury Parliament member vice Tony Blair?  He blamed Tony Blair and his policies (to his face) for Dyson manufacturing and another 350,000 manufacturing jobs moving out of the UK (during Blair’s term, up to this point).

    Is he the best qualified?  I don’t know.  What I do know is, he’s proof positive inventions can turn people into billionaire’s, create billion dollar corporations and all from humble beginnings – anyone’s carriage house, garage or backyard.


DIB

DysonInventsBig wrote:

Sir James should come to Tennessee.  We built a football stadium and gave it and most all proceeds for stadium events to the owner of the team.  Also cost about 2 times the original cost to build.  Then a short while later had to spend almost as much to repair as to build. 

Many downtown (nearby) businesses closed because the games did not generate enough revenue to support them. So if James wants all the money for himself and screw the gifter then he should move to TN.

The Volunteers beat the Georgia bull dogs yesterday, handily.  Perhaps the new stadium should have been for the college team rather than the pro.

Carmine D,