Where did the company, known for using fiber from goats in its fabrics, open its first shop?
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Wall Luxury Essentials Wall Luxury Essentials Ltd is a retailer of women's clothing and accessories. The company began as a shop in London's Notting Hill, before expanding into Mail order in 1999, and E-commerce in 2000. The company is known for its use of natural fabrics, including Peruvian Pima cotton, Alpaca fiber, Vicuña, Premium European linen, Mongolian cashmere and Silk, and its "grown-up range of subtle clothing".
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Cashmere wool Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from cashmere goats and other types of goat.
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Johnstons of Elgin Johnstons of Elgin, also known as Johnstons Cashmere, is a woollen mill in Elgin, Moray, Scotland.
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Farra Design Center FARRA Design Center is a privately held home products retail store that sells imported furniture and home accessories. The company originated in Beirut, Lebanon, and started as a raw material supplier. The first FARRA store opened in Downtown Beirut in 1976 then moved to Dekwaneh in the early 1980s. In 2004, the company constructed a 7 floors showroom and moved its flagship store to Mkalles (Beirut).
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Levi Strauss &amp; Co. Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately owned American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in May 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business. The company's corporate headquarters is located in the Levi's Plaza in San Francisco.
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Barber–Colman Company The Barber–Colman Company was a manufacturer of textile and milling machinery from its founding in 1894 until the 1980s. Howard Colman organized the company in Rockford, Illinois with capital from W. A. Barber. Early successes with their Hand Knotter and Warp Tying Machine allowed the company to expand internationally, manufacturing goods in five states and three countries. The company moved to Loves Park in the 1950s, but struggled following the death of Walter Colman in 1983. Eurotherm Controls, Inc. currently holds the rights to the company name.
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Bremer Woll-Kämmerei Bremer Woll-Kämmerei (BWK) is a worldwide operating company for manufacturing wool and trading in wool and similar products. The company is located in Bremen and has branches in Australia, New Zealand and Turkey. For some time it has been the world's largest company in this special section of economy.
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Portland Woolen Mills The Portland Woolen Mills were a wool textile manufacturer in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. By 1950, they had become the largest wool manufacturer west of Cleveland, Ohio. The origins of the factory started in Sellwood in 1901 but after a fire destroyed the mill two years later owners decided to rebuild in St. Johns. Portland Woolen Mills offered several worker programs including baseball, basketball and bowling teams; a cafeteria and a library.
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Bonmarché Bonmarché ( ) is a clothing retailer based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The business was founded in 1982, and was acquired by the Peacock Group in July 2002. The clothing retailer has over 380 stores nationwide, employs over 4,000 people and is the United Kingdom's largest budget fashion retailer selling womenswear in a wide range of sizes – especially plus size clothing.
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Edwin (company) Edwin or often capitalized, EDWIN, is a Japanese clothing brand founded in 1969 by Edwin Company (株式会社エドウイン, "Kabushiki-gaisha Edowin") mainly focused on jeans manufacture. The company has 365 employees and a revenue of 35 billion yen (as of 2002) according to the official site. The company has the largest flagship fashion store in Japan in Arakawa, Tokyo.
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Jim Henson's Creature Shop is a special/visual effects company founded in 1979 by puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets. The company is based out of Hollywood, California, United States, and, previously, Camden Town in London, United Kingdom, where they still maintain some facilities.
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Franklin &amp; Marshall (company) Franklin & Marshall is an Italian clothing manufacturer and retailer, founded and headquartered in Montorio Veronese, a town in the province of Verona in 1999.
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C. &amp; J. Clark C. & J. Clark International Ltd, trading as Clarks, is a British-based, international shoe manufacturer and retailer. It was founded in 1825 by brothers Cyrus and James Clark in Street, Somerset, England – where it still has its headquarters. The company has over 1,000 branded stores and franchises around the world and also sells through third-party distribution.
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Kuffert Sørensen Kuffert-Sørensen was established in 1829 and is Denmark's oldest leather goods company. In 1829 Carl Peter Sørensen (1799-1863) opened his shop at Børsen. He was the founder of Kuffert-Sørensen.
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Marimekko Marimekko is a Finnish home furnishings, textiles, and fashion company based in Helsinki. It made important contributions to fashion in the 1960s. It is particularly noted for its brightly colored printed fabrics and simple styles, used both in women's garments and in home furnishings.
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Lion Brand Founded in 1878, Lion Brand Yarn Company is the oldest producer of knitting and craft yarn in the United States. The company publishes several knitting and crochet newsletters.
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ECCO ECCO Sko A/S is a Danish shoe manufacturer and retailer founded in 1963 by Karl Toosbuy, in Bredebro, Denmark. The company began with only the production of footwear, but has since expanded into leather production, as well as accessories and small leather goods. ECCO opened its first retail store in Denmark in 1982. ECCO products are sold in 88 countries at 3,060 ECCO shops and shop-in-shops, and at more than 14,000 sales points around the world. The company is family-owned and employs 19,800 people worldwide.
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Leviathan (clothing) Leviathan is an Australian clothing brand established in 1909 in Melbourne, Victoria, by Leviathan Clothing Industry that started its activities as garments manufacturer for transoceanic crews.
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Jining Grey Jining Grey is a goat breed from the Shandong Province of China, used for the production of its kid pelt and cashmere fiber.
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Forman Mills Forman Mills, Inc. is a Pennsauken, New Jersey-based retail chain and department store with 35 stores, located in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Delaware, New Jersey, Washington DC, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New York City and their suburbs. They also operate a store at the Iverson Mall in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland. It was begun by Richard Forman when he started selling items at the Columbus Farmers Market. The chain is known for their low-priced designer clothing such as shirts, pants, shorts, capri pants, and hats.
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Manufactura de Pilar Manufactura de Pilar is a Paraguayan textile production and manufacturing company, founded in 1930. Manufactura de Pilar processes cotton and manufactures various garments and textile goods. Its headquarters is in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, while the production plant is in Pilar on the shores of the Rio Paraguay. "La Fabrica", as it is known to locals, employs a large number of the town's residents.
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Brahms Mount Brahms Mount is a textiles manufacturer, established in 1983 in Hallowell, Maine. It designs and creates a variety of soft furnishings in natural fibers, including blankets and throws, using traditional weaving techniques and antique equipment.