NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) _ The Oreck vacuum cleaner company
expects to reopen its New Orleans-area plant within the ten days as
it temporarily relocates its headquarters to Dallas.
Family-run Oreck Corporation is a big part of the Gulf Coast
business fabric with headquarters on the shores of the Mississippi
and a big factory in nearby Long Beach, Mississippi.
Its headquarters is expected to be inaccessible for weeks, so
the company is setting up a home office for now in Dallas and is
trucking in temporary housing for staff.
Shelter is also being provided for workers at the company’s Long
Beach factory, which appears to have escaped major damage.
The company has also resumed processing orders after shifting
its call center to Denver and determining that most of its
inventory was undamaged.
Oreck employs about a thousand people.