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, ...

“The things I saw that they were doing, I felt, were alarming,” New Orleans businessman David Oreck told WGNO News from his downtown office on Wednesday. Oreck was referring to the people who now run ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Founder of company%2C David Oreck%2C is now 89 years old In 2008%2C after Hurricane Katrina%2C headquarters moved from New Orleans to Nashville In 2003%2C Oreck sold the company%3B Black Diamond ...

David Oreck is known to most New Orleanians as an irrepressible TV pitchman for vacuum cleaners and color TVs years ago. But before that, he did something more important: He flew about a dozen ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. If he had to do it over again, David Oreck wouldn’t have ...

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 ...

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 ...