After graduating in 1920 Mumeo Oku worked in a clothing factory and helped to run a home for poor women.

ECONOMIST: Mumeo Oku

The company will continue to use the factory to run a recycling scheme for printer cartridges as well as to make other office technology.

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If Sunderland loses out, the job to build the new Micra could go to a factory on the outskirts of Paris run.

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Therefore, one might have expected to see another run for the roses Tuesday after Factory Orders came in with a plus sign instead of the negative number that had been anticipated and it was reported that U.S. Auto Sales rose for the eleventh straight month.

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The majority of jobs at a Birmingham City Council-run factory employing people with learning disabilities are to be cut.

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The 3D printer can run unattended, and can make many things which are too complex for a traditional factory to handle.

ECONOMIST: Manufacturing

These trends make it easier to hide in the shadows: concealing a computer consultancy run from home is far simpler than concealing a whole computer factory.

ECONOMIST: Light on the shadows