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.
Tineco: Global Leader in the Emerging Floor Cleaning Category (Photo: Business Wire)
NEW YORK (AP) — Reviving a campaign pledge, President Donald Trump wants a one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates, a move that could save Americans tens of billions of dollars but drew immediate opposition from an industry that has been in his corner.
Trump was not clear in his social media post Friday night whether a cap might take effect through executive action or legislation, though one Republican senator said he had spoken with the president and would work on a bill with his “full support.” Trump said he hoped it would be in place Jan. 20, one year after he took office.
Strong opposition is certain from Wall Street in addition to the credit card companies, which donated heavily to his 2024 campaign and have supported Trump's second-term agenda. Banks are making the argument that such a plan would most hurt poor people, at a time of economic concern, by curtailing or eliminating credit lines, driving them to high-cost alternatives like payday loans or pawnshops.
“We will no longer let the American Public be ripped off by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Researchers who studied Trump’s campaign pledge after it was first announced found that Americans would save roughly $100 billion in interest a year if credit card rates were capped at 10%. The same researchers found that while the credit card industry would take a major hit, it would still be profitable, although credit card rewards and other perks might be scaled back.
About 195 million people in the United States had credit cards in 2024 and were assessed $160 billion in interest charges, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says. Americans are now carrying more credit card debt than ever, to the tune of about $1.23 trillion, according to figures from the New York Federal Reserve for the third quarter last year.
Further, Americans are paying, on average, between 19.65% and 21.5% in interest on credit cards according to the Federal Reserve and other industry tracking sources. That has come down in the past year as the central bank lowered benchmark rates, but is near the highs since federal regulators started tracking credit card rates in the mid-1990s. That’s significantly higher than a decade ago, when the average credit card interest rate was roughly 12%.
The Republican administration has proved particularly friendly until now to the credit card industry.
Capital One got little resistance from the White House when it finalized its purchase and merger with Discover Financial in early 2025, a deal that created the nation’s largest credit card company. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is largely tasked with going after credit card companies for alleged wrongdoing, has been largely nonfunctional since Trump took office.
In a joint statement, the banking industry was opposed to Trump's proposal.
“If enacted, this cap would only drive consumers toward less regulated, more costly alternatives," the American Bankers Association and allied groups said.
Bank lobbyists have long argued that lowering interest rates on their credit card products would require the banks to lend less to high-risk borrowers. When Congress enacted a cap on the fee that stores pay large banks when customers use a debit card, banks responded by removing all rewards and perks from those cards. Debit card rewards only recently have trickled back into consumers' hands. For example, United Airlines now has a debit card that gives miles with purchases.
The U.S. already places interest rate caps on some financial products and for some demographics. The Military Lending Act makes it illegal to charge active-duty service members more than 36% for any financial product. The national regulator for credit unions has capped interest rates on credit union credit cards at 18%.
Credit card companies earn three streams of revenue from their products: fees charged to merchants, fees charged to customers and the interest charged on balances. The argument from some researchers and left-leaning policymakers is that the banks earn enough revenue from merchants to keep them profitable if interest rates were capped.
"A 10% credit card interest cap would save Americans $100 billion a year without causing massive account closures, as banks claim. That’s because the few large banks that dominate the credit card market are making absolutely massive profits on customers at all income levels," said Brian Shearer, director of competition and regulatory policy at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, who wrote the research on the industry's impact of Trump's proposal last year.
There are some historic examples that interest rate caps do cut off the less creditworthy to financial products because banks are not able to price risk correctly. Arkansas has a strictly enforced interest rate cap of 17% and evidence points to the poor and less creditworthy being cut out of consumer credit markets in the state. Shearer's research showed that an interest rate cap of 10% would likely result in banks lending less to those with credit scores below 600.
The White House did not respond to questions about how the president seeks to cap the rate or whether he has spoken with credit card companies about the idea.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., who said he talked with Trump on Friday night, said the effort is meant to “lower costs for American families and to reign in greedy credit card companies who have been ripping off hardworking Americans for too long."
Legislation in both the House and the Senate would do what Trump is seeking.
Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., released a plan in February that would immediately cap interest rates at 10% for five years, hoping to use Trump’s campaign promise to build momentum for their measure.
Hours before Trump's post, Sanders said that the president, rather than working to cap interest rates, had taken steps to deregulate big banks that allowed them to charge much higher credit card fees.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., have proposed similar legislation. Ocasio-Cortez is a frequent political target of Trump, while Luna is a close ally of the president.
Seung Min Kim reported from West Palm Beach, Fla.
President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, Jan. 9, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
FILE - Visa and Mastercard credit cards are shown in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
