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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.
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.
Sapirstein Greeting Card Co. was founded in 1906 by Polish immigrant Jacob Sapirstein [4] (1885–1987), who sold cards to stores from a horse-drawn cart, American Greetings has been run by members of the family since its inception. [2] Irving Sapirstein, Jacob's oldest son, became Jacob's first partner in 1918 at age nine. Irving's brother ...
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Clintons, previously branded as Clinton Cards, is a chain of stores in the UK founded in 1968 by Don Lewin [1] and best known for selling greeting cards. It also sells soft toys and related gift products. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE Fledgling Index.
Former Stralsund playing card factory at the Kütertor, Heilgeiststraße 2/3, in Stralsund. In 1765 Johann Kaspar Kern founded a playing card manufacturers in Stralsund. In 1793 it was taken over by Georg Friedrich Schlüter and, in 1823, passed to the von der Osten family with whom it remained for decades.
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