Tacony isn't buying Royal. Royal isn't for sale. They are owned by the TTI, a Chinese company, that just bought Oreck and is rebranding the Hoover and Dirt Devils with the Oreck name on them.
The Maytag vacuums are rolling off the lines - I'll get some publicity pics as soon as I can from the marketing department.
They are really 'new' models, even the motors are different. We're getting over 1200 hours out of the clean air upright (with it's double fan, double ball bearing motor).
The new canister won't be launched until January. Of course it will have a cord rewinder on it, can you imagine the backlash of the general public if it didn't have one? It will be packed alone, the three attachments sets available will be straight suction, compact power nozzle, or full size power nozzle. So one vacuum will be able to be 'customized' to fit what ever the needs of the customer are, and it can be 'upgraded' if the customer moves from a home with hard floors to one with Frieze carpets simply by adding the full size power nozzle, electric wand, and electric hose at that later date.