title: Breville
Hoover free flights promotion
Kingdom Holding Company
Delta Holding
Techtronic Industries
The Hoover Company
Chicago Pacific Corporation
Hoover's Sports Ground
Johnson Financial Group
Hongkong Chinese Limited
sentences: Breville is an Australian manufacturer and marketer of small home appliances, founded in Melbourne in 1932.
 They created the original sandwich toaster.
 The product was a huge success upon its launch in Australia in 1974, selling 400,000 units in its first year and making the Breville brand a household name in Australia.
 Soon after, the Breville toasted sandwich maker was launched in New Zealand and Great Britain where it met with similar success.
 The name became synonymous with such devices - to the point where in some countries "Breville" has become the generic word for a sandwich toaster, and often the toasted sandwich itself, in much the same way that "The Hoover Company" is associated with the vacuum cleaner.
The Hoover free flights promotion was a marketing promotion begun in 1992.
 The British division of The Hoover Company was carrying a large surplus stock of washing machines and vacuum cleaners; in order to sell them and free up warehouse space, it promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products.
 However, Hoover had not anticipated that huge numbers of customers that bought the qualifying products, were not really interested in the actual appliances, but were simply after the tickets offered in the promotion.
The Kingdom Holding Company (Arabic: شركة المملكة القابضة‎ ‎ ) is a Saudi conglomerate holding company based in Riyadh.
 The Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) is a publicly listed company on the Tadawul (Saudi Stock Exchange).
 The KHC consists of a select team of experienced investment specialists directed by its founder and chairman, HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and Chief Executive Officer, Eng.
 Talal Ibrahim Al Maiman.
 The company describes itself as a diversified investment company, whose main interests are financial services, real estate, tourism and hospitality, media, entertainment, petrochemicals, aviation and technology.
Delta Holding is a Serbian privately held holding company with headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia.
 Delta Holding performs a variety of services, such as import-export, real-estate, retail and wholesale.
 Delta Holding owns a major stake in the Port of Belgrade and employs about 3,400 people, making it one of the largest non-government employers in the country.
 The founder and president of Delta Holding is Miroslav Mišković.
 Delta Holding has invested more than 200 million euros in future projects outside Serbia, namely in the Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro.
Techtronic Industries Company Limited (), Techtronic or TTI, is an investment holding company based in Hong Kong.
 Its products include Milwaukee, AEG (AEG Powertools, licensed from Electrolux), Ryobi, Homelite, Hoover US, Dirt Devil, and Vax.
 TTI employs over 20,000 staff and in 2014 had worldwide annual sales of US$4.8 billion.
 Subsidiaries include AC (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, Baja, Inc., Homelite Consumer Products, Inc., Hoover Inc., One World Technologies, Inc. and Sang Tech Industries Limited.
Hoover was an American vacuum cleaner company that started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio.
 It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-20th century it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the "Hoover" brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
 The Hoover Company in the United States was part of the Whirlpool Corporation but sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries for $107 million.
 Hoover UK/Europe split from Hoover U.S. in 1993 and was acquired by Candy, a company based in Brugherio, Italy.
 It currently uses the same Hoover logo Techtronic uses outside Europe with the slogan "Generation Future".
The Chicago Pacific Corporation was a shell corporation created from the remains of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
 It managed to use much of the capital made from the liquidation of the Rock Island to acquire non-rail ventures such as The Hoover Company, Pennsylvania House/Kittinger, Inc., and Rowenta A.G..
 In 1988, the now profitable company was acquired by the Maytag Corporation.
Hoover's Sports Ground was a cricket ground in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
 The site of the ground was previously the site of a disused railway siding.
 The Hoover Company, a major employer in the town, bought the site and levelled it.
 A cricket ground with changing facilities was constructed, with the square being ready by 1953.
 The first recorded match held on the ground came 1959, when Somerset, Ebbw Vale and Hoovers XI played Glamorgan.
Johnson Financial Group, Inc is the holding company of Johnson Bank, Johnson Insurance, as well as Swiss banking company; Banque Franck, Galland & Cie. It has an estimated AUM of $4 billion and is the financial services subsidiary of the larger Johnson Family Enterprises Group of Companies.
 The company was founded in 1970 but wasn't incorporated until 1989 and has grown from a single bank holding company to a global organization providing a full range of financial services to businesses and individuals.
 Johnson Financial Group employs 1100 people and has over 40 locations in Wisconsin and Arizona.
 Helen Johnson-Leipold, one of Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr.'s 4 children, serves as chairman of the company.
 The company also had equity in Cayman Island-based TransOcean Bank & Trust, Ltd.
The HKCB Bank Holding Company Limited was incorporated in 1992 (and registered as a foreign company in Hong Kong on 20 October 1992).
 In 2001, the subsidiary Hongkong Chinese Bank was sold to CITIC Ka Wah Bank for HK$4.2 billion.
 The holding company itself was renamed to Hongkong Chinese Limited on 8 February 2002.
 In the same year 85% shares of Macau Chinese Bank and 85% stake of ImPac Asset Management were acquired, for MOP$190 million (from and Alvaro Pinho da Costa Leite) and US$2.125 million (from ImPac Partners) respectively.
 An additional 15% shares of the bank were acquired from Wong Kon Kei in September 2007, for MOP$47.2 million.
 In the same year Hongkong Chinese Limited proposed to sell 60% shares of the intermediate holding company of the bank, Winwise Holdings Limited.
 However, the deal collapsed.

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 Breville is an Australian manufacturer and marketer of small home appliances, founded in Melbourne in 1932.
 They created the original sandwich toaster.
 The product was a huge success upon its launch in Australia in 1974, selling 400,000 units in its first year and making the Breville brand a household name in Australia.
 Soon after, the Breville toasted sandwich maker was launched in New Zealand and Great Britain where it met with similar success.
 The name became synonymous with such devices - to the point where in some countries "Breville" has become the generic word for a sandwich toaster, and often the toasted sandwich itself, in much the same way that "The Hoover Company" is associated with the vacuum cleaner. 

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 The Hoover free flights promotion was a marketing promotion begun in 1992.
 The British division of The Hoover Company was carrying a large surplus stock of washing machines and vacuum cleaners; in order to sell them and free up warehouse space, it promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products.
 However, Hoover had not anticipated that huge numbers of customers that bought the qualifying products, were not really interested in the actual appliances, but were simply after the tickets offered in the promotion. 

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 Delta Holding is a Serbian privately held holding company with headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia.
 Delta Holding performs a variety of services, such as import-export, real-estate, retail and wholesale.
 Delta Holding owns a major stake in the Port of Belgrade and employs about 3,400 people, making it one of the largest non-government employers in the country.
 The founder and president of Delta Holding is Miroslav Mišković.
 Delta Holding has invested more than 200 million euros in future projects outside Serbia, namely in the Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro. 

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 Techtronic Industries Company Limited (), Techtronic or TTI, is an investment holding company based in Hong Kong.
 Its products include Milwaukee, AEG (AEG Powertools, licensed from Electrolux), Ryobi, Homelite, Hoover US, Dirt Devil, and Vax.
 TTI employs over 20,000 staff and in 2014 had worldwide annual sales of US$4.8 billion.
 Subsidiaries include AC (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, Baja, Inc., Homelite Consumer Products, Inc., Hoover Inc., One World Technologies, Inc. and Sang Tech Industries Limited. 

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 Hoover was an American vacuum cleaner company that started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio.
 It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-20th century it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the "Hoover" brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
 The Hoover Company in the United States was part of the Whirlpool Corporation but sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries for $107 million.
 Hoover UK/Europe split from Hoover U.S. in 1993 and was acquired by Candy, a company based in Brugherio, Italy.
 It currently uses the same Hoover logo Techtronic uses outside Europe with the slogan "Generation Future". 

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 The Chicago Pacific Corporation was a shell corporation created from the remains of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
 It managed to use much of the capital made from the liquidation of the Rock Island to acquire non-rail ventures such as The Hoover Company, Pennsylvania House/Kittinger, Inc., and Rowenta A.G..
 In 1988, the now profitable company was acquired by the Maytag Corporation. 

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 Hoover's Sports Ground was a cricket ground in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
 The site of the ground was previously the site of a disused railway siding.
 The Hoover Company, a major employer in the town, bought the site and levelled it.
 A cricket ground with changing facilities was constructed, with the square being ready by 1953.
 The first recorded match held on the ground came 1959, when Somerset, Ebbw Vale and Hoovers XI played Glamorgan. 

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 The HKCB Bank Holding Company Limited was incorporated in 1992 (and registered as a foreign company in Hong Kong on 20 October 1992).
 In 2001, the subsidiary Hongkong Chinese Bank was sold to CITIC Ka Wah Bank for HK$4.2 billion.
 The holding company itself was renamed to Hongkong Chinese Limited on 8 February 2002.
 In the same year 85% shares of Macau Chinese Bank and 85% stake of ImPac Asset Management were acquired, for MOP$190 million (from and Alvaro Pinho da Costa Leite) and US$2.125 million (from ImPac Partners) respectively.
 An additional 15% shares of the bank were acquired from Wong Kon Kei in September 2007, for MOP$47.2 million.
 In the same year Hongkong Chinese Limited proposed to sell 60% shares of the intermediate holding company of the bank, Winwise Holdings Limited.
 However, the deal collapsed. 

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Answer: 20,000 staff