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About Dirt Devil
The new marketing approach
included an aggressive advertising strategy and new distribution into mass
retail outlets such as Kmart and Wal-Mart. In 1984, Royal introduced an
innovative new product, the Dirt Devil® Hand Vac, which has grown to become
Royal´s signature product and the largest selling hand-held corded vacuum
cleaner in the United States. Since its debut, more than 23 million Dirt Devil
Hand Vacs have been sold. This success has opened the door for many new product
introductions under the Dirt Devil brand name.
Today, Royal (now TTI Floor Care North America) enjoys 98 percent brand name
awareness in the Dirt Devil name and manufactures uprights, hand vacs, stick
vacuums, canister vacs, and carpet shampooers. These products are now sold
through major retailers nationwide.
TTI Floor Care North America´s mission is to be a premier consumer products
company. It strives to recognize the needs of it's customers and supply them
with quality products that solve their cleaning problems. These philosophies
have enabled Dirt Devil to build brand loyalty derived from strong consumer
satisfaction.
History Of DirtDevil
The first Royal vacuum cleaners
were made by the P.A. Geier Company in 1905. This makes us one of the world´s
oldest vacuum cleaner manufacturing companies. Mr. Geier started producing his
metal cleaners by hand in a backyard garage in Cleveland, Ohio. Soon the company
grew and moved to a four-story building on 105th Street where it operated two
divisions, a cleaner division and a machining division. Besides vacuum cleaners,
the company produced mixers, hair dryers and washing machine units.
Vacuum cleaners, though, remained the key product, as the company introduced the
industry´s first hand-held vac, the "Royal Prince," in 1937. Royal joined most
manufacturing companies across the country and switched over to military
production during World War II.
Vacuum cleaner shipments remained strong up to 1953 when the P.A. Geier Company
was bought by an investment group, the Walter E. Schott Organization. The
Schotts renamed the company Royal Appliance Manufacturing. However, the new
owners were not wholly committed to the company and decided to dissolve it soon
after its acquisition. Royal was then purchased by a group of employees, headed
by Stan Erbor, in 1954. The company thrived under Erbor´s leadership, moving to
Highland Heights, Ohio in 1969 where it expanded and refined all phases of
operations. Erbor was active in the company until his death in 1981 at age 80.
Dirt Devil
Best Products
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UPRIGHTS
Bagless
Vision Self Propelled
Platinum Force
Powerlite
Featherlite
Jaguar
Vision
Power Streak
Cruiser
Breeze
Ultra Vision Turbo
Vision Turbo
Swivel Glide Vision
Bagged
Jaguar
Featherlite
Breeze
Featherglide
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Swivel Glide
HAND VACS
Rechargeable
Dust Devil
Extreme Power
Corded
Platinum Force
Ultra Hand Vac
Classic Hand Vac
Scorpion
EXTRACTORS
Rechargeable
Vac 'n' Mop
Corded
Platinum Force
Jaguar
Easy Steamer
Jaguar Deluxe
Spot Scrubber
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Featherlite
Floor Keeper
CANISTERS
Bagless
Vision
Breeze
STICK VACS
Rechargeable
Extreme Power
Sweeper Vac
Dirt Devil
Corded
Power Flex
Jaguar
Power Stick
SPECIALTY
Rechargeable
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Customer service:
TTI Floor Care North America
7005 Cochran Road
Glenwillow, Ohio 44139
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