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kirbyds80
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Waste of money
TTI floorcare has runined two good vacuums Hoover and Royal. Why they were bought out i have no clue, but it runined them for life...
-Jayson
TTI floorcare has runined two good vacuums Hoover and Royal. Why they were bought out i have no clue, but it runined them for life...
-Jayson
scvacuumguy
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They were bought out...
Because a bigger company came along and offered money. I used to work in corporate funeral service and the corporations would buy each other out, dissolve facilities, and buy private owned places out all of the time. It's just part of life.
TTI is run like a corporation, they are a corporation. In addition to Hoover and Royal- they also own the other following popular brands:
Milwaukee
Ryobi
AEG
Homelite
It is sad to see a corporation streamline a lot of products, but in reality some of the new vacuums are nice, simple and innovative.
I am a TTI dealer and warranty station and they are very competitive with their pricing and offer a very appropriate margin with most machines. The downside is they are not built like vacuums used to be built, but they are still built with the quality expected for their price.
Recently, we became dealers of the American Made Riccar vacuum. This was not to replace Hoover or Royal, but to offer buyers an alternative to the Hoover/Royal line (we only carry one dirt devil and that's the handvac classic).
It is going to be interesting to see what people tend to prefer more- we will push Riccar, but it will be worth noting how many customers go with the Royal simply because of price.
Someone said it earlier last month and I'll say it again:
"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten" - Benjamin Franklin
Because a bigger company came along and offered money. I used to work in corporate funeral service and the corporations would buy each other out, dissolve facilities, and buy private owned places out all of the time. It's just part of life.
TTI is run like a corporation, they are a corporation. In addition to Hoover and Royal- they also own the other following popular brands:
Milwaukee
Ryobi
AEG
Homelite
It is sad to see a corporation streamline a lot of products, but in reality some of the new vacuums are nice, simple and innovative.
I am a TTI dealer and warranty station and they are very competitive with their pricing and offer a very appropriate margin with most machines. The downside is they are not built like vacuums used to be built, but they are still built with the quality expected for their price.
Recently, we became dealers of the American Made Riccar vacuum. This was not to replace Hoover or Royal, but to offer buyers an alternative to the Hoover/Royal line (we only carry one dirt devil and that's the handvac classic).
It is going to be interesting to see what people tend to prefer more- we will push Riccar, but it will be worth noting how many customers go with the Royal simply because of price.
Someone said it earlier last month and I'll say it again:
"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten" - Benjamin Franklin
suckolux
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Amen.
eurekaprince
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Which AEG division did TTI buy?
Hi there Christopher...
Thank you for the rational explanation for the business decisions that TTI and Hoover and Royal make.
I was shocked to see the name AEG listed as one of the companies now under the TTI umbrella, since I thought Electrolux owned the AEG vacuum cleaner company now. Turns out, TTI just bought the power tools division of AEG. Here's an article explaining that corporate transition:
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2005/01/03/daily8.html
Hi there Christopher...
Thank you for the rational explanation for the business decisions that TTI and Hoover and Royal make.
I was shocked to see the name AEG listed as one of the companies now under the TTI umbrella, since I thought Electrolux owned the AEG vacuum cleaner company now. Turns out, TTI just bought the power tools division of AEG. Here's an article explaining that corporate transition:
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2005/01/03/daily8.html
kirbyds80
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Royal ruined?
So is the Royal name ruined for good? They use to make top notch vacuums metal ones, but what happend to them?
-Jayson
So is the Royal name ruined for good? They use to make top notch vacuums metal ones, but what happend to them?
-Jayson
Automatic-Shift
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Sadly, I got to go to one of the last Hoover factory-service centers in L.A. County, the Torrance one. I wish I had known or had foreseen the buyout as they had some great deals. I would have bought a Conquest. It's a quiet, well-built machine, and it cleans really nice, and hard-working too. Anyway, I was one of the lucky ones to have worked for the Hoover Co., back in the early '90's, and by far the nicest people to work for. I sure miss them all. Now, it's TTI, next who knows...Hoover will never be the same, and I don't believe it will ever be the same, as many brands are coming ahead, and let's face it, most are all plastic, look somewhat the same, and don't really have soul. Hoover's glory days is part of yesteryear, let's hope 'Made in USA' makes a comeback, because it may say 'Hoover' but its soul is overseas. That's my "two-cents".
Sadly, I got to go to one of the last Hoover factory-service centers in L.A. County, the Torrance one. I wish I had known or had foreseen the buyout as they had some great deals. I would have bought a Conquest. It's a quiet, well-built machine, and it cleans really nice, and hard-working too. Anyway, I was one of the lucky ones to have worked for the Hoover Co., back in the early '90's, and by far the nicest people to work for. I sure miss them all. Now, it's TTI, next who knows...Hoover will never be the same, and I don't believe it will ever be the same, as many brands are coming ahead, and let's face it, most are all plastic, look somewhat the same, and don't really have soul. Hoover's glory days is part of yesteryear, let's hope 'Made in USA' makes a comeback, because it may say 'Hoover' but its soul is overseas. That's my "two-cents".
scvacuumguy
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The Hoover Ground Command line is made in the USA. That's TTI's latest "comeback" for Hoover's commercial line. Royals are still metal, just with a little bit of a squeal-ier motor.
decade_800
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Needs to go and suck a big one. Sorry for my vulgarity but it's true, I blame consumers for wanting cheap garbage and then bitch and complain about it. We brought this on ourselves, society as a whole, we weren't happy with our quality products that lasted beyond the warranty, No god forbid, we instead want cheap products that break within months, spend more money to buy new products that will break again, and we bitch whine complain about how crappy our products are. Take a stand and invest in higher quality, give the cheap producing corporations a hard kick in the nuts.
Needs to go and suck a big one. Sorry for my vulgarity but it's true, I blame consumers for wanting cheap garbage and then bitch and complain about it. We brought this on ourselves, society as a whole, we weren't happy with our quality products that lasted beyond the warranty, No god forbid, we instead want cheap products that break within months, spend more money to buy new products that will break again, and we bitch whine complain about how crappy our products are. Take a stand and invest in higher quality, give the cheap producing corporations a hard kick in the nuts.
"Sorry for my vulgarity" <<<---From the deleted post above
Apology not accepted, and if you do it again, it will be the last time you'll ever post here. Vulgarity like that is clearly against the rules, I have zero tolerance for nonsense like that.
Apology not accepted, and if you do it again, it will be the last time you'll ever post here. Vulgarity like that is clearly against the rules, I have zero tolerance for nonsense like that.
decade_800
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Ok
As I said I apologize in advance!!!! Honestly that was not vulgar, for me it was thus my apology in advance in the first place. However, I've read plenty worse, actually much worse down right attacks towards others, but what ever it won't happen again I can be the Better person.
As I said I apologize in advance!!!! Honestly that was not vulgar, for me it was thus my apology in advance in the first place. However, I've read plenty worse, actually much worse down right attacks towards others, but what ever it won't happen again I can be the Better person.
sebo_fan
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AEG is still owned by Electrolux
AEG Power Tools is a separate company to AEG Floorcare and large household appliances. TTI only own the power tool outfit.
Click link for more up to date profit news from TIT, sorry TTI.
To be honest, and as a few members have stated, it could be any multi-global company that could come in to rescue these brands. I think people should just let time pass and see what products are developed rather than turning negative.
From my own experience TTI have been good for Vax in the UK. Without the Dirt Devils from the U.S under the Vax name, I don't think Vax would have survived under their own designs unless they developed a commercial range based entirely on their canister tub vacuums, trying to snatch a slice of the market that Numatic already have. Karcher have tried it, but even their round canister vacuums aren't as well built as either Vax or Numatic.
Without Dirt Devil, we wouldn't have had carpet washers from Vax, or even those much maligned bagless vacuums.
http://www.hfnmag.com/housewares/tti-sets-profit-sales-records-2012/
AEG Power Tools is a separate company to AEG Floorcare and large household appliances. TTI only own the power tool outfit.
Click link for more up to date profit news from TIT, sorry TTI.
To be honest, and as a few members have stated, it could be any multi-global company that could come in to rescue these brands. I think people should just let time pass and see what products are developed rather than turning negative.
From my own experience TTI have been good for Vax in the UK. Without the Dirt Devils from the U.S under the Vax name, I don't think Vax would have survived under their own designs unless they developed a commercial range based entirely on their canister tub vacuums, trying to snatch a slice of the market that Numatic already have. Karcher have tried it, but even their round canister vacuums aren't as well built as either Vax or Numatic.
Without Dirt Devil, we wouldn't have had carpet washers from Vax, or even those much maligned bagless vacuums.
http://www.hfnmag.com/housewares/tti-sets-profit-sales-records-2012/
floor-a-matic
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What happened to Vax USA? I'm refering to what is branded as Vax here in the USA like the x3 & x5 uprights.
sebo_fan
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The X3 and X5 uprights were not part of TTI - the AVC I and AVC II were the original uprights produced by Vax. I had one - terrific vacuum cleaner but heavy, sometimes difficult to steer on hard floor cleaning and compromised by that front hose that was inclined to clog. Vax and Bosch went together on the AVC upright with Bosch selling their own version in the UK alongside Vax. Eventually worldwide, the AVC morphed into the cosmetically different VX1 before the U.S got X3 and X5.
It was also quite expensive at cost when it appeared in the UK. It was obviously supposed to be a top end upright with its built in auto cord rewind and long travel cable - things I really liked about it.
It was also quite expensive at cost when it appeared in the UK. It was obviously supposed to be a top end upright with its built in auto cord rewind and long travel cable - things I really liked about it.
