When David Oreck started selling Oreck vacuum cleaners weighing less than 9 pounds in the 1970s, rivals scoffed that anything that light must be flimsy. Mr. Oreck, a self-trained master marketer of ...

Founder of company%2C David Oreck%2C is now 89 years old In 2008%2C after Hurricane Katrina%2C headquarters moved from New Orleans to Nashville In 2003%2C Oreck sold the company%3B Black Diamond ...

David Oreck, the New Orleans entrepreneur who after serving on a B-29 bomber during World War II founded the vacuum cleaner company that bore his name, died Wednesday at his Mississippi home. His ...

Oreck Corp. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization May 6 Family%27s bid is only one so far for company in Bankruptcy Court If successful%2C the family hopes to focus on U.S. manufacturing and a U.S.

“The things I saw that they were doing, I felt, were alarming,” New Orleans businessman David Oreck told WGNO News from his downtown office on Wednesday. Oreck was referring to the people who now run ...

One of the nation's best known salesmen came back to the Northland, spreading his message of business expertise and opportunity in America. And though he didn't make a pitch for his 8-pound upright, ...

David Oreck has one of those avuncular, made-in-the-USA infomercial voices that exude homespun quality so convincingly it was something of a shock to read a few weeks ago that the company that makes ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. If he had to do it over again, David Oreck wouldn’t have ...