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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.
In Altenburg itself, operations resumed on 3 May 1946. The playing-card factory was part of a state-owned business in the state of Thuringia. Eleven years later it became the Volkseigener Betrieb of Altenburg Playing Card Company (Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik, Altenburg Thüringen). Its trademark and logo was Cœur (a heart symbol).
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.
Weeks earlier in Chicago, factory worker John Quincy Archibald and his wife Denise rush their young son Michael to the hospital after he collapses at his baseball game. Cardiologist Dr. Raymond Turner and administrator Rebecca Payne tell John and Denise that Michael needs a heart transplant, at a cost of $250,000, or he will die.
Richard Valentine Pitchford was born in the Mumbles, Swansea, Wales on 24 November 1895. [2] Some sources use the incorrect year of 1899. [1]He joined the British Army during World War I, where he passed time in the trenches by practicing card manipulations.
The union was founded in 1886 as the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives, by the amalgamation of a few small, local unions. This followed the Oldham weavers' strike of 1885, which had led to non-unionised cardroom workers being locked out and losing their wages.
Its card designers included: Franciszek Bunsch, Krystyna Bunsch-Gruchalska, Anna Gaber, Maria Orłowska-Gabryś and Professors of the Academy of Fine Arts, Jan Szaucenbach and Andrzej Mleczko. The company is the oldest Polish publisher and producer of adult and children's playing cards and board games.