Oreck Jobs and Profile

David Oreck, Chairman of the Board, founded the Oreck Corporation in the United States in 1963 and was originally headquartered in the World Trade Center in New York City. Its home office is in New Orleans, Louisiana, and its principal manufacturing facility is in Long Beach, Mississippi. This manufacturing plant covers 375,000 square feet and is reputed to be one of the most modern in the world.

Oreck Corporation began as a company marketing and distributing upright vacuum cleaners for the hotel industry in the U.S. Its concept was to design a lightweight, yet powerful, durable vacuum that hotel maids would prefer to the very heavy models available to them. This idea proved so successful that now over 50,000 hotels throughout the world use Oreck vacuums. After a short time, hotel personnel asked to buy the machines for their own use, which gave the Oreck Corporation the idea to sell its unique products to the general public.

Oreck now sells throughout North America and South America, as well as Europe and the Orient. It has the reputation of being the manufacturer of the very finest cleaning equipment available anywhere. Oreck concentrates on lightweight cleaning machines of every style, each model having exceptional durability and ease of handling. Oreck advertises extensively on television, radio, an in the print media. It has had double-digit growth for the past several years and is a major manufacturer in the floor care industry.