I think Iona made all of their own appliances. They were a Canadian company but had a plant in Conn as well. It was IONA who brought out the Fantom vacuum, Dyson had worked for them in Canada, now whether he designed it for them or not I don't know. But anyways, it took off and the company name was changed to Fantom Industries. Dyson also took off I guess and started making the Dyson vacuums, Something like that anyways.