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In June 1993 he opened a research center and factory near his home in England to begin making his machine.
If you look back historically, the sales don't drop at the time of recession." As evidence he mentioned Dyson's strong sales during the United Kingdom's recession in 1993.
Good fortune came to James in 1993, in the form of Apex, a Japanese company, that licensed his design.
In 2000, one of the largest vacuum cleaner manufacturing company, Hoover was found guilty of patent infringement.
The G-Force, in the beginning, sold for $2000 in Japan.
Till 2001, Fantom Technologies sold Dyson products in North America as a licensee, after which Dyson began selling independently.
Eventually, in 2002, Hoover had to pay $4.2 million in damages to Dyson for this blatant infringement.
Awarded Dyson's advertising budget in 2002, the ad agency Fallon Worldwide launched the "Doesn't Lose Suction" campaign to tote Dyson's superior technology in an industry that, according to Dyson, needed improvement.
In 2002, Engineer Derek Phillips from the company created a water sculpture in which water appears to flow up to the top of four ramps before cascading to the bottom of the next ramp in cycles.
Dyson Company moves to Malaysia James decided to move his plant to Malaysia in 2002, for a variety of economic and expansion related reasons.
With a $14.4 million budget, Fallon released "Doesn't Lose Suction" across television and print during the second week of October 2003.
In 2004, Dyson signed a joint venture with Meiban Group, which is based in Singapore.
In 2004 Dyson continued increasing its advertising budget, bringing the sum to $16.1 million in the first seven months.
Besides increasing Dyson's sales the campaign also snagged a silver EFFIE advertising award in 2005.
By 2005 Hoover was spending $47 million on advertising with its new, Dyson-like tag-line, "No Loss of Suction." Hoover also released a vacuum model, called WindTunnel, that boasted 56 percent more suction than Dyson.
In 2006, vacuum parts maker Qualtex was found guilty of copying some of Dyson’s design rights to make and sell its vacuum parts.
In 2006, Dyson invented the Dyson Airblade, a hand dryer that uses a thin sheet of moving air to remove water rather than use heat to evaporate it.
He followed up the vacuum cleaner line with other products, such as the Air Multiplier bladeless fan, introduced in 2009, in which air drawn through the base unit is blown over the inner surface of an ethereal airfoil-shaped ring, inducing air surrounding the ring to flow in an uninterrupted stream.
In 2010, Dyson sued a rival company called Vax for allegedly copying its design to develop its Mach Zen vacuum.
The James Dyson Foundation launched in the US in 2011 followed by Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore.
However, on this occasion, the court ruled against Dyson.Dyson had sued Samsung in 2013 for allegedly copying its vacuum steering technology, which ensures that the vacuum moves smoothly and intuitively behind the user and isn’t dragged around.
The couple owns a range of million-dollar assets across Europe including a town house in Chelsea, London, a $20 million 300-acre estate in Georgia, a $4.5 million chateau in France, and a 91-metre super yacht ranked the 36th largest in the world as of 2013.
In 2013, the company produced the "Air Multiplier", a fan with no external blades.
In 2019 Dyson also announced that it will be moving its headquarters to Singapore, from Malmesbury in Wiltshire however it will continue to invest in its UK research and engineering sites.
Failing to address it could cost the UK economy £27 billion every year from 2022.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Sunflower Group | 1978 | $15.0M | 232 | - |
| Stellar Industrial Supply | 1988 | $460,000 | 25 | - |
| Cellcom | 1982 | $170.0M | 400 | - |
| VITRONIC | 1984 | $780,000 | 7 | - |
| Renaissance Printing Co | - | $1.3M | 14 | - |
| Total Outsource | 1999 | $14.1M | 170 | - |
| USA Mobile Drug Testing | 2008 | $5.2M | 100 | 31 |
| OTP Industrial Solutions | 1963 | $230.0M | 750 | - |
| Lawrence & Schiller | 1976 | $19.9M | 82 | - |
| Positive Promotions | 1947 | $28.0M | 300 | - |
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