Who invented dyson

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I built several cyclones each day, conducting tests on each one … this might sound boring and tedious to the outsider, I get that. My tale is one of not being brilliant. If a slow starter like me could succeed, surely this might encourage others. South-East Asia is incredibly important to Mr Dyson: Australia was his first export market and now one in three Aussie homes are equipped with a Dyson machine.

Since he established the company in , it has stayed entirely in family ownership and now employs 14, people around the globe. He is fit and still runs long distances, has restored several houses, owns an ocean-going yacht and is close to his three children and six grandchildren. In , he decided to ditch his dream of building a Dyson electric car when he realised he could not compete with the big manufacturers like Toyota and VW. And then I got into one or two little stores. I usually sell from the point of view of frustration, hoping that other people feel the same way.

After that, I was like any other vacuum-cleaner salesman. I showed what it did, why it was different, and why it performed better. The only way I got into the big British stores was because in , the former British foreign secretary, Lord Howe, came to look around at the factory. He asked if there were any problems. I told him I couldn't get into Comet, which was our equivalent of Best Buy. He said, "Well, my wife's on the board!

Within a year, we were the best-selling vacuum cleaner in Britain. I didn't enjoy being CEO that much. At an operational level, that becomes an enormous job, too big for me. I've never really been a businessman. I wanted to carry on the design and engineering myself. That's what I love doing.

I had to bring in outside talent in a major way. At the time, in , I had no finance director, no production director. He launched Dyson in the U. We developed a number of other vacuum cleaners, and we made the Contrarotator—a washing machine that used two drums spinning in opposite directions to mimic washing by hand. But we wound up losing money on it and had to stop production. It wasn't my decision, and emotionally, I wasn't ready for it. The products, they're like children.

We were growing fast, but in , we were denied permission to expand our existing building. It would have cost us two years and millions of pounds to argue the case. We couldn't wait. Almost all of our components already came from the Far East. So it was utter logic to move production to Malaysia. It was a difficult decision. It meant job losses.