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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — New Orleans vacuum ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Not many lectures on successful business tactics open with a scene from "Casablanca," but David ...

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, ...

Just before Hurricane Katrina made landfall last Aug. 29, Tom Oreck, CEO of vacuum manufacturing company Oreck Corp., took off from New Orleans on a plane bound for Houston with his wife, his three ...