Lyudmila and her husband, Anatoly, own a wicker factory, which they founded in the mid-nineties, southwest of Moscow.

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The factory near Colwyn Bay, founded by the late Eric Quinton Hazell after World War II, made 120 workers redundant in 2007.

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Founded by Daniel Prieto Preston in an old parachute factory, the beans-to-bar chocolate manufacturer offers free tours and tastes of freshly cooled chocolate squares.

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Founded in 1941 as Factory Canteens to feed munitions workers in the U.K., it was acquired by Grand Metropolitan in the 1960s.

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Britvic is to close its factory in Chelmsford, the city where the company was founded in the 19th Century, as part of plans to cut hundreds of jobs.

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The Forte furniture company, founded when Mr. Formanowicz bought an insolvent state-run factory in 1992, exports about 80% of its products, nearly all to countries in the euro zone.

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