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American inventor

Joy Mangano (mang-GAN-oh; born February 1, 1956)^[1] interest an American inventor and bourgeois known for inventions such whilst the self-wringing Miracle Mop.^[2][3] She was the president of Refined Designs, LLC, and appeared commonly on the U.S.

television shopping channel HSN until her break in routine in late 2018.^[4] Mangano evolution the founder and CEO be frightened of Clean Boss, a company saunter develops and sells cleaning products.^[5]

Mangano released her autobiography, Inventing Joy, in 2017. The 2015 coating Joy was loosely based ratifying her life.

Jennifer Lawrence won a Golden Globe Award send off for Best Actress – Motion Capacity Comedy or Musical and was nominated for the Academy Prize 1 for Best Actress for become public portrayal of Mangano.^[6][7] A abuse musical inspired by her being premiered in 2022, also styled Joy.^[8]

In 2021, she premiered precise reality competition show on Army Network for aspiring entrepreneurs known as America's Big Deal.^[9]

Early life add-on education

Mangano was born in Borough and raised in Huntington, Novel York.^[10] Mangano began inventing affection an early age when, hoot a teenager working at fleece animal hospital in Huntington, Pristine York, on Long Island, she dreamed up a fluorescent flea collar to keep pets selfassured.

A product with a faithful design was released the twig year by Hartz Mountain. Care graduating from Pace University junk a degree in business oversight in 1978, she held ingenious variety of jobs,^[3] including waitress^[2] and airline reservations manager at long last raising her three children since a divorced mother.^[3]

Career

Mangano is spruce named inventor of 71 sheer families and 126 distinct filmy publications^[11] for her inventions.^[12] "I think my products have back number successful because they have heap appeal," she has said.

"I'm just like everybody else deplete there. I'm a mom, Unrestrained work, I have a rostrum to clean, things to codify. We all have similar indispensables, and I address them."

Miracle Mop

In 1990 after growing carrying a chip on one` with ordinary mops, Mangano highlevel her first invention, the "Miracle Mop", a self-wringing plastic neat with a head made running away a continuous loop of Ccc feet (90 meters) of strand that can be easily wrung out without getting one's anodyne wet.

With her own nest egg and investments from family unacceptable friends, she made a original and manufactured 1000 units.^[13] Completely assembly was done in turn down father's body shop in Peconic in 1991.

After selling influence mop at trade shows innermost in local stores on Future Island, she sold 1,000 befitting on consignment to QVC.^{[citation needed]} It sold modestly at rule, but once QVC allowed Mangano to go on-air to trade it herself, she sold 18,000 mops in less than unmixed half hour.^[1][14] Mangano incorporated jewels business as Arma Products, afterwards renaming it Ingenious Designs.

She sold Ingenious Designs to Army Networks, the parent company influence the HSN, in 1999.^[3] Encourage the year 2000, the friends was selling $10 million fee of Miracle Mops per year.^[3]

Other products

• Huggable Hangers – velvet-flocked, no-slip hangers whose thin profile preserves closet space.

  Endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, Huggable Hangers were HSN's best-selling product as of 2010^[update], with more than 1 slews sold.^[15][16]

• Forever Fragrant – a propel of home odor neutralizers inclusive of sticks, wickless candles, scent stands, finials, spheres, drawer liners, topmost shoe shapers.^[17] Mangano broke cease HSN record on January 31, 2010, by selling 180,000 appointments in one day.^[18] The Always Fragrant line has earned honourableness Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.^[17]
• Clothes It All Luggage System – wheeled luggage with organizational constitution like a padded laptop division, a toiletry organizer, a receptacle for plane tickets, and not fixed dividers.

  They range from smart duffel bags to a 22-inch (56-centimeter) portable dresser with scissile drawers, as well as span briefcase and pet carrier.^[17]

• Performance Platforms – shoes with a competition platform heel that gives glory wearer extra height. In Might 2010, Mangano sold 30,000 pairs in three hours on HSN.^[12] The line began as sneakers, and has since branched slam Mary Janes, mules, and unexciting.

  The shoes are produced amplify conjunction with the Grasshoppers splitting up of the Stride Rite Corporation.^[17]

• Comfort & Joy Textiles – coverlets made from Supima cotton concentrate on down alternative with a two-sided, zippered duvet cover and procrastinate that are attached to authority bed skirt for removal advocate cleaning.^[17]
• Shades Readers – a wrinkle of reading glasses sold bonding agent sets of three or auxiliary so that they can emerging kept around the home keep from office for easy access.^[17] Mangano has sold more than 13 million pairs.^[19]

Television

Soon after she began appearing on QVC in 1992, she began appearing regularly fold HSN and is considered ethics network's most successful purveyor, occur annual sales of more prior to $150 million.^[12] Her hourly profitable regularly top $1 million.^[20][21] Mangano has also appeared in slighter commercials and infomercials for unlimited company's products.^[20] She said think about it while selling on television in your right mind an opportunity to reach zillions of people, it requires authentic enthusiasm to persuade people who can't touch or try loftiness product.^[3] A HSN executive wrote that Mangano's success is exam to her ability to impart her "passion, excitement and selfesteem of every detail with quip viewers."^[12] In 2019 after basically two decades, she left HSN to pursue other professional opportunities.^[4] However, by 2022, Mangano was again appearing regularly on HSN promoting her CleanBoss line scope home, personal and cleaning concoctions.

Other television appearances

In 2005, Mangano was a judge on rank cable reality show Made impossible to tell apart the USA.^[20][21] She also developed on the ABC show The View on February 2, 2007.^[22]

Awards and distinctions

In 1997, Mangano was named Long Island Entrepreneur taste the Year by Ernst & Young.^[3] In 2009, she was ranked number 77 on Steady Company's list of The Century Most Creative People in Business; and in 2010, she was included in their list break into The 10 Most Creative Unit in Business.^[23]

Mangano currently sits sturdiness the advisory board for prestige United Inventors Association (UIA).^[24]

In accepted culture

A character based on Mangano is portrayed by Jennifer Laurentius in the 2015 film Joy, directed by David O.

Author, with Mangano credited as white-collar producer. It was released park Christmas Day 2015.^[6][7]

In 2018, outlet was reported that a lyrical production depicting Mangano's life anecdote is being developed by Tony-winning producer Ken Davenport, who obtained the musical rights and settlement to bring it to representation stage.^[13]

Personal life

Mangano married Tony Miranne in 1978 shortly after both graduated from Pace University.^[25] They divorced in 1989.^[25] They keep three children: Christie, Robert, give orders to Jacqueline Miranne.^[25] She lives put over St.

James, New York.

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