The Building

The Hoover Building is the London home for PRG Lighting and many of our project managers.

Built for The Hoover Company in 1932, the building originally housed Hoover's main UK manufacturing facility making vacuum cleaners, and employed up to 600 staff in the its offices and works.

During the Second World War the Hoover Factory manufactured electrical equipment for aircraft and tanks, operating 24 hours a day, with employees working shifts. The buildings were repainted and camouflaged with netting to avoid being spotted and bombed by German aircraft. During the blitz a lookout post was set up on the roof, and was manned by members of the sales force who were too old for active service.

In 1989 the supermarket chain Tesco purchased the Hoover Building and sixteen of the seventeen houses that backed onto the Hoover site. Plans were then set in motion to build a Tesco Supermarket at the rear of the site and restore the original building and canteen, and convert them into offices.

In March 2009 PRG Lighting moved to the building with it's ground floor providing home to our project managers, gobo manufacturing facilities and a WYSIWYG studio.

For contact details of the staff based at the Hoover Building, please click here to visit 'Our People' >