It was a typical outside-the-customs factory settlement: a cluster of shops and apartment buildings wedged into a dusty cut in the hills and, fanning out along the two main roads, strips of factories and their dormitories.
We name an employee of the month in only one of my companies, the custom framing factory, where I have the most employees working together in the same place at the same time.
I was young and naïve, and I didn't understand that a custom-order factory like mine is very different from a widget factory.
In 1908, luxury car maker Rolls-Royce moved to Derby to a custom-built factory.
The 1983 Cadillac Seville and Eldorado, Buick Riviera and Oldsmobile Toronado introduced Bose components, the auto industry's first custom-engineered, factory-installed premium sound systems, Bose says.
The 20-employee firm brokered custom tooling for factory mills and lathes.
This unusual factory custom Porsche was offered at no reserve at the RM Monterey auction, Aug. 16, 2002, and sold for $44,000, nearly four times the going rate for same-vintage 928s.
They'll miss meeting that guy who lives in a yurt that he skis to each evening after working all day at a custom ski making factory where unicorns, Marilyn Monroe and snow leopards are all part of a top sheet graphic design day's work.
