Result
The court cases went on until 1998. After the fiasco had cost the company almost £50 million, the British division of Hoover was sold to the Italian manufacturer Candy. Urban Explorers at the company's abandoned and derelict factory in Wales have unearthed several hundred boxes of complaints letters about the free flights, still in the basement and stamped with various legal marks.
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