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Card Factory plc is a retailer of greeting cards and gifts in the United Kingdom founded in Wakefield by Dean Hoyle and his wife Janet. The first store opened in 1997, and by 2020 the company had over 1,000 stores. [ 3 ]
On 28 November 2008 [7] it was announced that Card Factory had purchased 76 of the group's 288 stores as part of a rescue package, securing around 500 of the 1800 jobs. [6] In 2007, Card Factory, a greeting card retailer based in Wakefield, began a rapid expansion of its stores throughout the UK.
American Greetings Corporation is a privately held American company and is the world's second largest greeting card producer behind Hallmark Cards. [2] [3] Based in Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the company sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, gift packaging, stickers and party products.
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Dean Hoyle (born 16 April 1967) is the founder and former owner of Card Factory and the chairman of Championship side Huddersfield Town. In 2015, Hoyle became chairman and majority shareholder of British discount retailer, The Works .
The other new sets for 1989 were a 12-card "Blue Chips" and a 56-card "Traded" set. The 12-card "Blue Chips" set is identical to the "Grand Slammers" set, except in the place of the "Grand Slammers" logo is a "Blue Chips" logo with a Donruss or Leaf trademark. These cards were not issued in factory sets, and are not commonly found among collectors.
In 1846 Ludwig Heidborn founded a playing card factory which produced cards until 1848 and then again, after a long break, from 1857. In 1848, another playing card factory in Stralsund was started by Gustav Friedrich Diekelmann. This was led from 1850 by Eugen Diekelmann, from 1855 by Theodor Wegener and from 1863 by Fritz Wegener.