AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
The Denver Post Al Lewis column.
Byline: Al Lewis
Sep. 9--Oreck Corp., maker of a widely advertised 8-pound vacuum cleaner, has spent the past two weeks gathering its 1,200 employees from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina.
With a corporate headquarters in New Orleans and a manufacturing plant about 100 miles away, near Gulfport, Miss., the family-owned business took a double blow from Katrina.
"We always had contingency plans for a possible disaster in either New Orleans or on the Gulf Coast, but we never really planned on a storm so large that it would have an impact on both places," chief executive Tom Oreck told me in a telephone interview this week.
Oreck's father, 82, founded the company in 1963. He's ...
- New Orleans City Bits: October 24, 2005.
- Magazine article from: New Orleans CityBusiness October 24, 2005 700+ words
...HQOreck Corp. is returning to New Orleans to help rebuild the city, said President and CEO Tom Oreck and founder David Oreck. Oreck...our people back home to the New Orleans region," Tom Oreck said. Oreck Corp. was first...
- Oreck: New Orleans needs infrastructure emphasis.
- Magazine article from: New Orleans CityBusiness August 7, 2006 700+ words
...Katrina, according to one chief executive. Tom Oreck, president of the New Orleans-based vacuum cleaner company that bears his...employment of 500. Including personnel at its New Orleans corporate headquarters, Oreck said roughly...
- Oreck Corporation Calls New Orleans Home.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 7, 2005 700+ words
...Employees Rebuild Lives NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire...Corporation, headquartered in New Orleans, LA, is taking measures...Oreck President and CEO Tom Oreck. "Since our corporate headquarters in New Orleans was devastated by the...
- Citizens Ask: Does New Orleans Have a Future or Is It Politics and Beignets as...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 3, 2006 700+ words
...Citizens for 1 Greater New Orleans. "We formed this group...The Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region...levee projects," said Tom Oreck, Vice Chairman of The Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region...
- Business Council Demands Reform in Assessing Property Taxes Necessary for New...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 28, 2006 700+ words
...issued last week, seven New Orleans property tax assessors...The Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region...arbitrary practices," said Tom Oreck, Vice Chairman of The Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region...
- Oreck Corp. chooses Tennessee over New Orleans for new facility.
- Magazine article from: New Orleans CityBusiness November 6, 2006 700+ words
...Guillet Oreck Corp. President Tom Oreck opened a new manufacturing...headquarters remain in the New Orleans area at 100 Plantation Road...location, Oreck said. The New Orleans headquarters will now have...compared with the 200 who work in New Orleans. The new Tennessee ...
- Companies commit to remain in New Orleans.
- Magazine article from: New Orleans CityBusiness September 12, 2005 700+ words
...Report Officials from two New Orleans companies committed today...development. Entergy Corp., New Orleans' only Fortune 500 company...Hurricane Katrina. "New Orleans is Entergy's home and...Oreck President and CEO Tom Oreck.Hurricane Katrina impacted...
- Oreck Corporation - Chairman & CEO Interview.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire August 29, 2006 700+ words
...reopen its headquarters in New Orleans, in October of last year. Tom Oreck is the president and the...Corporation. He joins us from New Orleans. Tom, that is moving pretty fast. TOM ORECK, CHAIRMAN & CEO...
- Oreck Corporation Survives Hurricane.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 1, 2005 700+ words
...personality, David Oreck, Tom Oreck and his team put the...homes and memories in New Orleans and the Gulfport area are devastated. Tom Oreck's fourth child, a...elected to stay in New Orleans. She has been working...
- Oreck Corporation Reaffirms Commitment to American Manufacturing; Opens...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 24, 2006 700+ words
NEW ORLEANS, July 24 /PRNewswire...President and CEO Tom Oreck, initially Oreck...helped it grow," Tom Oreck said. "I wasn...families not just in New Orleans and Mississippi...country," said Tom Oreck. "That responsibility...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Denver Post Al Lewis column.