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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...