industry founded 1906 headquarters br ndby denmark key people jonas persson president & chief executive officer products cleaning equipment and full cleaning systems revenue eur 918 million 2014 number of employees 5 500 parent nkt holding website https www.nilfisk.com the nilfisk factory in frederiksberg denmark 1954 . one of the early nilfisk models english commercial from the 1930s . nilfisk is a supplier of professional cleaning equipment in both industrial commercial and consumer markets . 1 the company is headquartered in br ndby denmark with sales entities in 45 countries and dealers in more than 70 countries . nilfisk has manufacturing facilities in hungary italy germany denmark the united states mexico brazil and china . it has approximately 5 500 employees worldwide . the company s core businesses are the supply of industrial and commercial cleaning machines and professional high pressure cleaning equipment . nilfisk advance also markets vacuum cleaners and high pressure cleaners to consumers . the nilfisk advance group s main global brands are nilfisk nilfisk alto 2 and viper . the largest regional brands are advance and clarke . the company is owned by nkt holding . 3 nilfisk is a part of the united nations global compact . 4 contents 1 history 2 cultural references 3 references 4 external links history edit this section needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message nilfisk was founded in denmark in 1906 by peder andersen fisker 1875 1975 and hans marius nielsen 1870 1954 as fisker & nielsen . originally the company produced electrical engines as the basic component in ventilators kitchen elevators drilling machines and later on the nimbus motorcycle . the nilfisk vacuum cleaner of 1910 weighed 17.5 kilos . fisker took out a patent on this invention and later bought out nielsen . the vacuum cleaner outsold the other products and the other engine products were gradually phased out . by 1954 the company had sold 1 million vacuum cleaners . in 1989 nkt holding listed on the copenhagen stock exchange bought fisker & nielsen . in 1994 nilfisk a s acquires advance machine company and in 1998 nilfisk a s is renamed nilfisk advance . in 1998 nilfisk advance merged with euroclean kent 5 and between 2000 and 2011 nilfisk advance acquired cfm alto ecologica united states products viper hydramaster egholm plataforma and jungo making nilfisk advance one of the largest suppliers of professional cleaning equipment worldwide . 6 in 2015 nilfisk advance changed name to nilfisk 7 in order to create alignment with the company s global product brand nilfisk . cultural references edit nilfisk is featured in a famous song from the belgian singer daan . the song swedish designer drugs opens with the sentence i m shot in the back by nilfisk addicted cowboys . the clip shows the iconic nilfisk vacuum cleaners . references edit european cleaning journal http www.cleanlink.com sm article nilfiskadvance acquires alto 1220 nkt holding http nkt.dk http www.lios tech.com menu lios technology social responsibility united nations global compact http www.kenteuroclean.com aboutus companyhistory.aspx http www.voxmeter.dk index.php cases case globally lang en http www.logisticsmgmt.com view nilfisk advance changes corporate name and brand to nilfisk warehouse external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to nilfisk . nilfisk advance retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nilfisk advance & oldid 736110712 categories industrial supply companiesmanufacturing companies of denmarkmanufacturing companies based in copenhagencompanies based in br ndby municipality1906 establishments in denmarkcompanies established in 1906vacuum cleaner manufacturershidden categories articles needing additional references from march 2013all articles needing additional referencescommons category with local link same as on wikidatause dmy dates from november 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages danskdeutschfran aisnorsk bokm lsuomisvenska emait ka edit links this page was last modified on 25 august 2016 at 06 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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