The Hoover Company

The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in Ohio, United States, in 1908. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom, where it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry during most of the 20th century, to the point where the Hoover brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Hoover North America was once part of Maytag, but was sold by Maytag's new owners Whirlpool Corporation in 2007 to Hong Kong multinational manufacturing company Techtronic Industries for $107 million. Hoover International had already split from Hoover North America in 1993, and was acquired by Candy in 1995, which was acquired by Haier in 2018.

In addition to producing floorcare products, Hoover was a prominent domestic appliance brand in Europe, particularly well known for its washing machines and tumble dryers in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and it also achieved significant sales across many other European markets. Today, the Hoover Europe brand, part of the portfolio owned by the Chinese multinational home appliance company Haier, remains a major player in the European white goods and floorcare sectors in several countries.