David Oreck, the New Orleans entrepreneur who after serving on a B-29 bomber during World War II founded the vacuum cleaner company that bore his name, died Wednesday at his Mississippi home. His ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — New Orleans vacuum inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, David Oreck, has died at the age of 99. According to his wife, Jan Oreck, he died after a brief illness Wednesday ...

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 ...

Marshall Oreck, one of two brothers who ran the company bearing their surname that makes vacuum cleaners and other cleaning products, died Friday at Touro Infirmary. He was 92. He died of ...

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, ...

"Nothing gets by an Oreck" is the phrase that helped launch the 40-year career of its founder, David Oreck, who spoke to ASU business classes Thursday. At age 80, he is still pushing products and the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Headed toward his hundredth birthday, David Oreck still has the pilot’s license he got as a teenager. WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features reporter Bill Wood wants to show you ...

Which Oreck vacuum is best? Keeping the dust and dirt off your floors is a tough job if you don’t have a high-quality vacuum to tackle all the surfaces. Oreck vacuums are some of the most trusted ...