Electrolux EL5020A Intensity Upright Vacuum Cleaner Buy a Used "Electrolux EL5020A Intensity Upright Vacuum Cleaner" and save 59% off the $299.99 list price. Maximum suction in a compact design. 12 amp power for full size suction and brushroll performance. Direct airpath maximizes suction power. Dirt travels only 3" to the bag. This unit has a compact design with folding handle and it's easy to store and to carry. Lightweight convenience with maneuverable handling for cleaning around furniture. Perfect for deep down routine cleaning. Fingertip controls and automatic cord rewind reduces bending. 17 x 12 x 14 inches #1,808,828 in Home and Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home and Kitchen) #1,146 in Home & Kitchen > Vacuums & Floor Care > Vacuums > Upright Vacuums See all 99 customer reviews See all 99 customer reviews (newest first) good machine, just too heavy for wifeWe threw it away. We had it fixed and was told it was not made for American plugs. The repair person fixed it for free and told me that he didn't know how long...

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First the hate:Yes, what everyone else comments about on this vacuum really is true. The profile is to high to get under beds. Beautiful design aesthetically, & it does clean more deeply than standard vacuums, possibly as it says because the bag is located within the roller unit near to the ground, or i... This is an excellent vacuum for those with only a few rooms of carpeting, especially if those rooms are spread across more than one floor of the house. See and discover other items: bag vacuum, cordless vacuums under Design, DIY, Green Lighting, Innovation, Recycled Materials Ben Light’s namesake shines through in this brilliant lamp born from his resolve to salvage his grandfather’s old Electrolux vacuum cleaner. One of fifteen finalists in our Spring Greening Contest the project is based upon the original casing and retains the vacuum’s automatic cord return while providing an extra cool retro vibe to any interior space. The remainder of the wood is built from oak scraps from a variety of his old woodworking projects.

If you’re a fan of the Vacuum light, be sure to vote for it in our contest post! VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE SPRING GREENING DESIGN > Electrolux Upright Vacuum Cleaner Exhaust Filter 6.4 x 3.8 x 0.2 inches #77,853 in Home and Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home and Kitchen) #301 in Home & Kitchen > Vacuums & Floor Care > Vacuum Parts & Accessories > Filters > Upright Filters ROBERT R GRAY JR See all 21 customer reviews (newest first) it is a filter Great price, good product, quick delivery Cheap, and shipped fast! Fast delivery, Works great.IT IS hard not to be impressed by the latest gizmo from Electrolux, the world's biggest white-goods producer. The Trilobite, named (oddly) after a long-extinct creature, is a robotic vacuum cleaner that uses sensors to navigate around the house, leaving its owner free to sip Chardonnay and wonder why it took so long to automate such mundane tasks. The project was completed on the watch of Hans Straberg, head of the Swedish company's floor-care division.

Later this month he takes over as chief executive. He succeeds Michael Treschow, who is leaving to take the top job at Ericsson, a mobile-telecoms giant. The Trilobite aside, Mr Straberg, who is only 45 years old and barely known outside Electrolux, faces a tough challenge on several fronts. Mr Treschow is a hard act to follow. He was quietly successful at cutting costs and selling businesses to focus on three activities: consumer white goods, outdoor products such as lawnmowers, and machines for more demanding professional users. Investors liked what they saw and Electrolux's shares performed well until last year. But the cost-cutting is largely over—as are the gains that Mr Treschow enjoyed thanks to a weak Swedish krona. Mr Straberg will have to do something more profound to keep Electrolux growing. Like other consumer-goods groups, Electrolux is vulnerable to the economic cycle. During the recession of the early 1990s, its profits collapsed. Falling demand last year, combined with a bungled fridge-factory expansion in America, caused profits to tumble once again, to SKr5.2 billion ($500m).

There has been little sign of any improvement in demand in America or Europe—a difficult background against which to take the helm. Still, Mr Straberg knows what his biggest task will be: tackling Electrolux's sprawling portfolio of brands, more than 50 of them in all. In Europe it owns Zanussi and AEG, in America Frigidaire. It also owns numerous local brands, such as Tornado vacuum cleaners in France. As things stand, this plethora of brands is a problem. Electrolux must maintain many complicated manufacturing operations to support them. Moreover, unlike competitors such as General Electric or Maytag in America and Bosch-Siemens in Europe, Electrolux is spreading its efforts across the entire consumer-goods market, marketing products in the discount, middle-market and premium segments (see chart). That strategy arguably damages its brand-appeal to consumers. Mr Straberg insists that Electrolux is well positioned to deal with this criticism. The firm, he says, now understands that better brand management is its best defence against the commoditisation of its products by low-cost Asian manufacturers.

“Our aim is to become a reliable and trusted partner with our customers and retailers,” says Mr Straberg. “That means we need a few strong brands. We can't support too many.” An important step has been to buy back the rights to the Electrolux brand in the United States. Bizarrely, these were sold in the 1960s and the proceeds used to expand outside Sweden. The company now intends to develop Electrolux as a global brand. However, Mr Straberg acknowledges that rationalising the brands can be dangerous if done too quickly—so the rebranding will be more evolution than revolution. The Electrolux name will become the “master brand”, but the company will keep strong local brands, such as the Flymo lawnmower in Britain. Mr Straberg wants to repeat throughout the company his main achievements in the floor-care division. There, he closed inefficient factories, concentrating production where returns were best. He also modernised manufacturing techniques, putting more emphasis on final assembly than on vertical integration.