Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1980 at a trade fair in Lisbon the company Numatic was demonstrating its latest vacuum cleaner: a squat cylinder ...

I put the George Numatic GVE370 to the test and found it to be a top contender, excelling in both wet and dry cleaning tasks The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase ...

Have you ever wondered how a Henry vacuum is made? Numatic International in Chard makes more than 5,000 of the vacuum cleaners a day. The firm employs about 1,000 people in the town and local area. It ...