Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Vax has been the fastest growing floor division in the UK for a number of reasons, Carmine - their budget upright and cylinders were all Dirt Devil from the U.S under different cosmetic changes and colours. BEFORE Dirt Devil and effectively TTi bringing in U.S Hoover windtunnel bagless products for higher end "Vax" models, Vax struggled to make ends meet financially with only one really successful vacuum on their books; their larger cylinder tub vacuum and that was moved to Australia for wider production in the 1990s which still continues today. Their other upright that did reasonably well is the Vax VX/Bosch upright vacuum, again another merger. Vax were never really that financially dependent to design a whole new model ground up in the 1990s before the Bosch merger. Their last upright vacuum under their own design was quite a novel one with a dust bag/hard box upright that could be changed over to a wet box model, following on from their 3 in 1 wash machine but it proved too fragile, too heavy and compromised by its change over design.

Vax would never have been where is it now without Dirt Devil in the U.S and effectively now with TTI as the parent company continues to grow albeit with passed down Dirt Devil and Hoover U.S products. Ive a feeling that Candy may well wish to hold onto Hoover; the company don't have another vacuum cleaner company in their umbrella portfolio of companies and Candy's stock market shares benefit from Hoover UK/Europe products.

Personally I think TTi have enough brands.