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BISSELL is a family owned company that has been a leader in the homecare business for over five generations.
We are committed to researching and understanding the lives and cleaning needs of our customers. The BISSELL foundation develops smart, innovative yet practical home cleaning solutions, inspired by real life. That is tradition, innovation and passion: our past, present and future.
Melville and Anna Bissell owned a crockery shop in which dust and breakages were a daily occurrence. Melville developed a carpet sweeping machine to keep the shop neat and tidy. It was so effective that word spread, demand rose and BISSELL soon sold far more carpet sweepers than cups and saucers, over 1000 a day.
When Melville Bissell died in 1889, his wife Anna led the business, becoming the first female CEO in the US. She defended the company's patents and marketed sweepers throughout North America and Europe. In the late 1890s BISSELL gained Royal approval by supplying sweepers to Queen Victoria, who decreed that all the Royal palaces should be “BISSELLed” every week.
In 1956 the manual carpet shampooer liberated people from scrubbing carpets on hands and knees. By the end of the 1960s BISSELL was looking at solutions for all kinds of floors, work that leads to today's carpet cleaners, spot cleaners and wet & dry vacuums.
