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 ...
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 ...
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 ...