For nearly one-hundred years, The Kirby Company has manufactured superior, American-made home cleaning systems. Kirby does not sell directly to the public but continues a long tradition of ...

In an era when you can buy just about anything with the click of a mouse, door-to-door sales of vacuums seem a quaint anachronism. But don't be fooled by that image. Door-to-door vacuum sales are big ...

On April 24, 2010, Helen Olga Losak was cutting the grass at her Upper East Side Bridgeport home when she saw the beat-up white van. Six men piled out of it after it parked on her street. They huddled ...

The sign on Kirby's world headquarters and factory at 1920 West 114th St. still says it's "a Scott Fetzer company." However, that is no longer the case. Right Lane Capital, a private equity firm in ...