Tineco: Global Leader in the Emerging Floor Cleaning Category

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Tineco: Global Leader in the Emerging Floor Cleaning Category

2024-11-26 15:39 Last Updated At：15:50

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 26, 2024--

Today, Tineco is proud to announce that Euromonitor International, the world's leading independent provider of strategic market research, has recognized the company as the global leader in the emerging household floor cleaning category. With more than five million units sold between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, this honor reflects Tineco’s commitment to innovation and quality in the home care sector.

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Building on more than two decades of industrial innovation, Tineco began its journey with a single vacuum cleaner. A pioneer in industrial excellence, the company introduced the world’s first smart vacuum cleaner in 2018, followed by the first smart floor washer in 2019 and the first smart carpet cleaner in 2022. Today, Tineco products are cherished by 14 million users across key markets worldwide, including North America, Europe, and Asia.

Tineco has become a globally recognized leader in the smart home appliance market, spanning floor care, kitchen, and personal care categories, with 975 patents and 577 trademarks registered across domestic and international markets. For three consecutive years, the company has held the title of the top wet-and-dry vacuum brand on Amazon in the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Australia, and Japan.

“When we founded Tineco, our mission was to simplify life and household chores through smart technology. Over the past 26 years, our dedicated R&D team has made significant investments and remained steadfast in setting the standard of excellence in floor care solutions,” said Ling Leng, CEO of Tineco. “Being recognized by Euromonitor International as the global leader in the wet-and-dry vacuum category is an incredible milestone. This acknowledgment reinforces our commitment to continue innovating and pushing boundaries to bring outstanding products to market that enhance our customers’ lives worldwide. Looking ahead, we are focused on making Tineco more accessible by expanding into new markets, introducing cutting-edge technologies to simplify our customers’ lives, and diversifying our product range to meet evolving needs.”

Tineco’s flagship models, including the FLOOR ONE Stretch S6, PURE ONE Station 5, and Carpet One Cruiser, combine smart features with superior power and user-friendly capabilities, revolutionizing the cleaning experience. Each model has been meticulously designed by Tineco’s R&D team to address real-world challenges and enhance user satisfaction, drawing from advanced technology and valuable consumer feedback.

Key features include:

A leader in intelligent floor care, Tineco’s smart models are equipped with its exclusive iLoop technology, which adjusts suction power in real time based on detected dirt levels. This not only optimizes battery energy but also allows users to visually confirm cleaner floors as the device’s display ring transitions from red to blue when the surface is spotless. All new Tineco models are customer-centric, featuring self-cleaning functions that greatly simplify device maintenance.

Tineco products are available globally. In France, they can be found on Amazon, Tineco’s official online store, and across numerous online retailers, including Boulanger, Fnac-Darty, Cdiscount, Conforama, Electro Depot, and Ubaldi.

For more information about Tineco and its complete range of smart stick vacuums, floor washers, carpet cleaners, and more, visit https://fr-store.tineco.com.

About Tineco
Tineco was founded in 1998 with its first SKU as a vacuum cleaner and, in 2019, pioneered the first-ever smart vacuum. Today, the brand has innovated into a global leader offering intelligent appliances across home categories, including floor care, kitchen, and personal care. Tineco is dedicated to its brand vision of making life easier through smart technologies and consistently innovating new devices.

Georgia's newly elected parliament opens its first session with opposition boycotting

2024-11-26 15:28 Last Updated At：15:40

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The newly elected Georgian parliament opened its inaugural session Monday as opposition lawmakers and the president boycotted it and thousands of protesters, watched by riot police, rallied outside and accused the ruling party of rigging the vote under Russian influence.

The Oct. 26 election that kept the Georgian Dream party in power was widely seen as a referendum on the country’s effort to join the European Union.

Opposition parties refused to participate in the parliament's activities, and only 88 lawmakers, all Georgian Dream members, were in the hall as the 150-seat parliament held its first session.

Nika Melia, leader of Coalition for Changes, vowed that the opposition “will do everything to defeat the so-called government, the self-proclaimed government.”

“This is the fight between people fighting for freedom against people who are trying to entrench the deeply authoritarian regime," he said.

President Salome Zourabichvili, who has rejected the official results and refused to recognize the parliament’s legitimacy, didn’t attend the opening session.

Zourabichvili, who holds the mostly ceremonial position, said on X the parliament is unconstitutional because of evidence of electoral fraud and her refusal to open the session as required by the constitution. She has filed a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court, arguing that two fundamental principles guaranteed by the constitution — the secrecy of the vote and its universality — were violated.

In a televised statement, Zourabichvili declared that “today the parliament of Georgia no longer exists” because Georgian Dream has "trampled the constitution.”

“I feel sorry for all these parliamentarians who sat there today with frozen expressions, because they know they are the result of falsified elections, and they know they will be locked in this hall for several months or weeks, where none of them has any rights," she said. She hailed civil society and, in particular, the youth for standing up to Georgian Dream, declaring, "The old era reflected in today’s parliament has truly come to an end.”

Zourabichvili was elected by popular vote, but Georgia has approved constitutional changes that abolish the direct election of the president and replace it with a vote by a 300-seat electoral college that consists of members of parliament, municipal councils and members of legislatures of autonomous regions. The parliament on Tuesday is to set a date for the electoral college to vote on a new president.

Georgian Dream kept Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze in office and its members voted to allow parliament speaker Shalva Papuashvili to keep his seat. The ruling party also controls all key parliamentary positions.

Several thousand protesters, some of them waving Georgian and EU flags, rallied outside the parliament in the pouring rain, facing phalanxes of riot police.

“The government has stolen elections from us,” said student Vakho Sebiskveradze. “It’s not only about the elections — this is about stealing the European future from the Georgian people, the Georgian nation, and the Georgian youth.”

The Central Election Commission said Georgian Dream won about 54% of the vote in October. Its leaders have rejected opposition claims of fraud.

European election observers said the balloting took place in a “divisive” atmosphere marked by instances of bribery, double voting and physical violence.

Critics have accused Georgian Dream — established by Bidzina Ivanishvili, a shadowy billionaire who made his fortune in Russia — of becoming increasingly authoritarian and tilted toward Moscow. The party recently pushed through laws similar to those used by the Kremlin to crack down on freedom of speech and LGBTQ+ rights.

The EU suspended Georgia’s membership application process indefinitely in June after parliament passed a law requiring organizations that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “pursuing the interest of a foreign power,” similar to a Russian law used to discredit organizations critical of the government.

Badri Japaridze, leader of Strong Georgia Coalition, pledged that members of opposition parties elected to parliament will stay away from it. “We are not going to enter this parliament, we boycott it, we do not acknowledge it,” he said.