BISSELL's goal is to help you improve the ways you take care of your home, right down to the microscopic irritants. Since 1876, we've spent years developing cleaning tools designed to keep your living environment up to the highest standards.
In the mid-1800s, Anna and Melville Bissell owned a small crockery shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. While cleaning up after the day's work, Anna often became frustrated with the sawdust that was embedded in the carpet. The tiny, stubborn particles clung to the carpet, and trying to sweep them up was becoming a time-consuming nuisance.
Anna presented the problem to Melville, her mechanically inclined husband. He designed and constructed a carpet sweeper machine that he hoped would solve the problem once and for all.
The BISSELL Carpet Sweeper was patented in 1876, and in 1883 the first BISSELL manufacturing plant was built in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Following Melville Bissell's untimely death in 1889, Anna stepped in and confidently took control of the company, becoming America's first female corporate CEO.
Under Anna's aggressive and innovative management, BISSELL soon began to look in new directions in product development for their budding carpet sweeper line and to expand their carpet sweeper business to include all the continents of the world.
As lifestyles changed, the company expanded beyond the carpet sweeper and introduced additional products that helped people clean better while saving time. In the 1950s, BISSELL invented a new multi-purpose formula and shampooer that reduced the time involved in and the drudgery of carpet cleaning. To meet the growth of smaller living spaces, BISSELL introduced practical, lightweight cleaners that people could use quickly and store easily. And BISSELL made deep cleaning (once the exclusive domain of commercial providers) available to everyone with its introduction to the consumer market of the current carpet deep cleaners that feature a built-in heater to optimize performance.
Specialties
World leader in Deep Cleaning products
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BISSELL Homecare, Inc. Activity on LinkedIn
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BISSELL Homecare, Inc. has a new Brand Marketing Intern
Daya Pillai is now Brand Marketing Intern
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BISSELL Homecare, Inc. has a new Customer Service Representative
Shannon Stearns, MBA is now Customer Service Representative, was Student Intern - Supply Chain at Saint Mary's Health Care
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BISSELL Homecare, Inc. has a new Senior Financial Analyst
Brandon Lupp is now Senior Financial Analyst
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BISSELL Homecare, Inc. has a new Staff Engineer-Packaging
Larry Yost is now Staff Engineer-Packaging
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BISSELL Homecare, Inc. has a new Manager International Forecasting
Edwin Van der Hoorn is now Manager International Forecasting
