Posted on 12/05/08
Vacuum cleaner king's got a brand new bag
Sir James Dyson, king of vacuum cleaners, made his fortune selling the machines at three times the price of conventional models.Now the smooth-talking British engineer who flogs his Dyson vacuum cleaners on television has moved to another mundane category: the hand dryer. Just as his vacuum cleaner is the Porsche of floor maintenance, so his Airblade dryer - at $1,600 a pop - is at the top end of hand hygiene. It costs up to eight times more than existing dryers.
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