Maytag had the rights to Hoover vacuums in the UK for a number of years. They ran a promotion for vacuum sweeper buyers that included a drawing for one couple’s free week in a Paris hotel.
The promo was so poorly written that a judge ruled that everyone who bought a new Hoover was due a free week in Paris.
I was a vendor for Maytag for many years.
When natural gas got expensive or was curtailed, Maytag switched to residual oil to make steam at the plant. I delivered the oil in tank cars.
I remember getting a call from the buyer that went, “...remember that oil we bought from you? Would you be interested in buying it back?
The plant closed a few months later—the brand name bought by Whirlpool.
You should write a book! You REALLY should. The Rise and Fall of an American Icon.....or something like that.