Mr. Blount joined the business, a silk-dyeing operation owned by his family, in 1919 after graduating from Harvard.

One plant, a new $460 million operation owned by Santa Fe Forestal y Industrial, came on line last April.

Soon after his shop was closed by the large operation owned by Edward Cudahy.

Early on in the town's history, pottery became an important part of Greensboro's economic base, with the first operation owned and operated by Alexander Vance.

Lovell was also involved in the operation of the Grand Valley Lumber Company, also owned by his father.

Now it is the headquarters of a much larger operation, owned by Leslie Green, its third proprietor.

He hopes the markets will eventually become six-day-a-week operations, owned and operated by the community.

The operations previously owned by Gwalia in Wodgina and Greenbushes continue to operate in some capacity.

Since 1997, the island has been the site of a substantial pearl farming operation owned by the Australian company Atlas Pacific.

The above-named state-run operations - owned by the Bavarian state - were shut down in 1885.