What investment company owns the North American vacuum company Hoover?
Techtronic Industries
Title: James M. Spangler
Passage: James Murray Spangler (November 20, 1848 – January 22, 1915) was an American inventor, salesman and janitor who invented the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner that revolutionized household carpet cleaning.  His device was not the first vacuum cleaner.  However, Spangler's device was the first that was practical for home use.  It was the first to use both a cloth filter bag and cleaning attachments.  Spangler improved this basic model and received a patent for it in 1908.  He formed the Electric Suction Sweeper Company to manufacture his device.  William H. Hoover was so impressed with the vacuum cleaner that he bought into Spangler's business and patents.
Title: Terren Peizer
Passage: Terren Scott Peizer dubbed the "Zelig of Wall Street" is currently the Chairman of his personal Los Angeles-based investment company, Acuitas Group Holdings (AGH), which in turn owns 100% of Crede Capital Group (CCG) which invests in public companies, and provides growth capital to small and medium-sized enterprises.  Since its inception in June 2009, CCG has provided companies with capital commitments and funding in excess of $1.2 Billion.  Besides its ownership of Crede Capital, Acuitas Group owns 72% of Catasys, Inc., a provider of proprietary big data based analytics and predictive modeling driven behavioral health management services for health plans; and owns 100% of NeurMedix, Inc., a biotech company that develops and commercializes disease modifying small molecules to treat neuro-degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Migraine disease, Huntington’s disease, ALS, MS, Epilepsy, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Retina disease.  Peizer is Founder, Chairman of the three Acuitas companies, and is CEO of Catasys, Inc. and Crede Capital Group.  Having developed a bioscience and healthcare expertise, Peizer’s Crede Capital became the largest shareholder in 22nd Century Group, Inc., a public company that is commercializing bio-plant technology to harm-reduce tobacco, creating very low nicotine and very low tar tobacco products which affect levels of addiction and cancer causing carcinogens.  On October 1, 2015 New England Journal of Medicine published a landmark study on the company’s very low nicotine spectrum cigarettes.  In October 2014, Peizer and 22nd Century formed a JV to commercialize the company’s products in China with China National Tobacco Company, the largest tobacco company in the world and the largest monopoly in China.  China represents over 50% of the worldwide tobacco market.
Title: Hasan Abdullah Ismaik
Passage: Hasan Abdullah Ismaik (Arabic: حسن عبدالله إسميك‎ ‎ ) is a Jordanian businessman and Chairman of Hasan Abdullah Mohammed Group (HAMG Group), a UAE-based group of investment companies founded by Ismaik in 2006.  He owns Marya Development & Real Estate Investment LLC, a private investment company in the United Arab Emirates with a diversified investment portfolio that includes projects worth US$4 billion.  He is the Chairman and majority shareholder of the German sports club TSV 1860 Munich; Chairman of Al-Ashmal Real-Estate Investment Co. in Jordan; Vice Chairman of Al Manara International Jewellery in Abu Dhabi, and Chairman of publicly-listed Masaken for Land and Industrial Development Projects (Masaken Capital).  In 2014, Forbes Magazine listed Ismaik as the first Jordanian billionaire and the third-youngest billionaire in the Middle East.
Title: Investor AB
Passage: Investor AB is a Swedish investment company, founded in 1916 and still controlled by the Wallenberg family through their Foundation Asset Management company FAM.  The company owns a controlling stake in several large Swedish companies with smaller positions in a number of other firms.  At year-end 2013 it had a market value of 190.9 billion kronor (€21.4 billion, $29.4 billion), a discount to the Net Asset Value of 11.4%.
Title: Scottish American Investment Company
Passage: The Scottish American Investment Company () is a publicly traded investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange.  It invests in a broad range of UK and international assets.  The Scottish American Investment Company is managed by Baillie Gifford & Co Limited, the Edinburgh-based investment management partnership.
Title: Techtronic Industries
Passage: Techtronic Industries Company Limited (), Techtronic or TTI, is an investment holding company based in Hong Kong.  Its products include Milwaukee, AEG (AEG Powertools, licensed from Electrolux), Ryobi, Homelite, Hoover US, Dirt Devil, and Vax.  TTI employs over 20,000 staff and in 2014 had worldwide annual sales of US$4.8 billion.  Subsidiaries include AC (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, Baja, Inc., Homelite Consumer Products, Inc., Hoover Inc., One World Technologies, Inc. and Sang Tech Industries Limited.
Title: Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust
Passage: Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust is an open-ended real estate investment trust that owns Boardwalk Communities, Structures Metropolitaines, and Boardwalk Retirement Community.  The company owns a mixture of high-rise, mid-rise and low-rise apartment buildings in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.  Boardwalk owns 260 properties with 36,418 units totalling approximately 31 million net rentable square feet.
Title: The Hoover Company
Passage: Hoover was an American vacuum cleaner company that started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio.  It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-20th century it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the "Hoover" brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland.  The Hoover Company in the United States was part of the Whirlpool Corporation but sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries for $107 million.  Hoover UK/Europe split from Hoover U.S. in 1993 and was acquired by Candy, a company based in Brugherio, Italy.  It currently uses the same Hoover logo Techtronic uses outside Europe with the slogan "Generation Future".
Title: KLCC Property Holdings
Passage: KLCC Property Holdings Berhad (KLCCP; ) is a Malaysian property investment company which owns and manages office, retail and hotel properties in Kuala Lumpur, mainly in the KL City Centre area.  Among the properties owned or managed by the company and its stapled real estate investment trust are the Petronas Twin Towers (the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004), Suria KLCC, the Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur and Menara Maxis.
Title: ICT Group (Russia)
Passage: The ICT Group (Russian: Группа ИСТ ), also spelt IST Group, is an investment venture based in Russia.  The company owns a number of Russian businesses including a precious mineral extraction company Polymetal, and United Wagon Company, Russia's largest manufacturer of freight railcars and one of the leading of rail transportation providers.  In 2013 assets that were previously part of ICT Group formed an investment company ICT Holding Ltd based in Cyprus.
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