Some Dyson facts for y'all!
• There are 45 people in Dyson’s Wiltshire based motors team.
• The headquarters at Malmesbury, Wiltshire is home to around 300 engineers and scientists who constantly strive to develop new and better technologies.
• Dyson has quadrupled the amount it invests on RDD year on year for the past five years.
• The size of Dyson’s testing area in Malaysia is 4385 m².
• Dyson turnover for 2007 was £611m – an increase of 19% (2006: £515m).
• Dyson operating profit in 2007 was £89m – an increase of 7% (2006:£83m).
• Dyson vacuum cleaners are designed and engineered in the UK and every week 100,000 are assembled in Malaysia.
• Dyson employs more than 2,400 people worldwide (2008).
• Research states that 1/3 of all households in the UK own a Dyson (TNS 2005).
• 82% of Dyson owners would recommend a Dyson to a friend (Hall and Partners, June 2006).
• In 2008, 80% of Dyson machines were sold outside the UK, compared to just 30% four years ago.
• The total number of Dyson vacuum cleaners sold worldwide, since 1993 is 28.6 million (2008) – and still counting… (11.6 million of these were sold between 2006 and 2008).
• Dyson’s DC24 was the #1 upright by value within 5 weeks of launching in the UK (GfK, 2008).
