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EPE welcome Numatic!

EPE have once again proved that they are The UK’s Leading Premium SDA Distributor as they welcome exciting new brand Numatic, expanding the companies offering in the floor care sector.

‘Our amazing floor care range better than ever, competitive prices and our service promise’

EPE now have available for order Numatic Homecare products including the famous ‘Henry’ vacuum, as well as the rest of the Henry family. Further details of the Hoover product range available are featured in January’s Buyers Choice on the loose leaf supplied with January’s ‘The Buyers Choice’.

The story of Numatic

Numatic was founded in 1969 in the Somerset town of Crewkerne, in southwest England, where it produced its first commercial vacuum cleaner design for cleaning coal, oil and gas fired boilers.

At the beginning, the company employed six people in a little factory that was not as big as a garage and the most sophisticated equipment was a drill …. thank heavens the days were 24 hours long!

The first vacuum cleaner designs were made of a combination of oil drums and everyday components that were readily available, such as suitcase handles, furniture castors and domestic washing-up bowls. All assembled in such a way as to provide a simple, reliable workhorse for commercial and industrial use.

By 1971, demand had grown too big for the little Crewkerne works and we moved to a watermill in nearby Yeovil, which is where we learnt all about wet pick-up machines ….when the river ran high, the factory regularly flooded  (more…)” href=”https://www.epeinternational.com/the-story-of-numatic/#more-3582″ class=”read-more-align-left”>(more…) →

A brief history of the vacuum cleaner

The history of vacuum cleaners in the UK dates back to the early 1900s. Hubert Cecil Booth started the first vacuum cleaner company in the UK, known as the British Vacuum Cleaner Company. It wasn’t long however before William Henry Hoover, who had already experienced success with his vacuum cleaners in America, made headway in the vacuum cleaners market in the UK and overtook Booth.

Hoover’s vacuum cleaners in the UK became such a success that ‘to hoover’ quickly became synonymous with vacuuming. Some of the earliest domestic vacuum cleaners in the UK incorporated simple reusable fabric bag designs whereby the vacuum cleaner simply collected dust in the bag. Once the bag was full, you could empty and reattach it to the vacuum cleaner. Unlike modern day vacuum cleaners in the UK, these vacuum cleaners didn’t have advanced filtration, motorised brush bars or attachments to make vacuuming more effective.


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Which? Test Lab Blenders

Once again Blendtec has received high praise from Which?, having been put through its paces in their ‘Test Lab’

The Blendtec 575 Classic – Brand Managed by EPE

Blendtec-575-Classic

‘A praiseworthy new arrival’

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EPE welcome Hoover!

EPE have once again proved that they are The UK’s Leading Premium SDA Distributor as they welcome exciting new brand Hoover, expanding the companies offering in the floor care sector.

‘Our amazing floor care range better than ever, competitive prices and our service promise’

EPE now stock a wide range of Hoover products which include a selection of upright, cylinder, handheld and stick vacuums as well as a selection of steam cleaning products. Further details of the Hoover product range available are featured in January’s ‘The Buyers Choice’ on pages 60 – 64.

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