It employs 15, 000 people in 50 countries, but it is sensitive to the economy.

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The factory currently employs 50 people and the trust said it hoped to create another 50 jobs and increase visitor numbers following the refurbishment.

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It started as a final-year student project and now employs 50 people, mostly in Bristol.

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It has done this with an unusually decentralised management: Xstrata employs only 50-odd people at its main offices in Switzerland and London.

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