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Fiskars Group (natively Fiskars Oyj Abp, formerly Fiskars Oy Ab until 1998), [3] is a Finnish consumer goods company founded in 1649 in Fiskars, a locality now in the town of Raseborg, Finland, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Helsinki. It is one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the World.
WWRD Holdings Limited is a company that was created by KPS Capital Partners in 2009 out of the remains of Irish firm Waterford Wedgwood plc, and it has been owned since 2015 by Finnish home products maker Fiskars. The company owns Waterford Crystal, Wedgwood and Royal Doulton, among other brands, and the name WWRD is an acronym for 'Waterford ...
The two invested 440,000 crowns, topping it up two years later and taking the share capital of the company to 1.2 million crowns. P.A. Pedersen also took over the chairmanship, but the post-war years proved to be challenging, amid recession and bankruptcies, and as the business struggled, in 1924 Pedersen became the firm's managing director too.
The Iron Rolling Mill (Eisenwalzwerk), 1870s, by Adolph Menzel. Casting at an iron foundry: From Fra Burmeister og Wain's Iron Foundry, 1885 by Peder Severin Krøyer. An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.
The company used thirty metals to make 400 commonly used alloy steels. It had nine mills in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, two coal mines, a water company and a half-interest in a Mesabi Range iron ore mine. Now the company's chairman, Hufnagel brought in Raoul Eugene Desvernine [28] as president. With a legal background ...
Vulcan Iron Works was the name of several iron foundries in both England and the United States during the Industrial Revolution and, in one case, lasting until the mid-20th century. Vulcan , the Roman god of fire and smithery, was a popular namesake for these foundries.
Hackman was a cutlery and cookware company founded in Finland in 1790. [1] The Hackman brand is now owned by Iittala Group, which was acquired by Fiskars Corporation in 2007. [2] [3] In a 2008 survey which included both Finnish and international brands, it was the fifth most respected brand among consumers. [4]
Fiskars (Swedish; Finnish: Fiskari) is a village, now part of the town of Raseborg, in western Uusimaa, Finland. The village is the site of the former Fiskars Bruk, which was founded in 1649 and gave rise to the company Fiskars. The most notable architectural attraction of Fiskars is a mansion designed in 1818 by Italian-born architect Charles ...