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In 1951 Douglas Storrie was a ribbon salesman. He was asked if he could print on these. Borrowing the money from his Father, he purchased a printing press and began to print on the ribbons. When he found that he could make a profitable business out of this, he rented a section of the railway station at St. Annes-on-Sea. He also discovering that shoe insock labels could be made successfully by hot foil blocking, he used his remarkable sales skills to gain a considerable amount of custom in that market. Douglas moved on to rent a factory abutting the railway further up the line. Eventually, the label making enterprise added more and more machines until the whole factory and adjacent storage areas had been filled and bought up.