Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Max Conze, the chief executive of vacuum cleaner producer Dyson Ltd., said the company’s sales reached 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) for the first time, in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph.

Dyson, the Wiltshire, England-based manufacturer founded by James Dyson, reached the milestone in 2011, the Telegraph said. The company plans to create 500 new jobs in the U.K., Conze told the paper.

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