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Margarete Steiff (24 July 1847 – 9 May 1909) [1] was a German seamstress who in 1880 founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, more widely known as Steiff, a maker of toy stuffed animals. [2] Born in Giengen, Kingdom of Württemberg, Margarete contracted polio as a child, leaving her with both legs paralyzed and pain in her right arm.
Steiff was founded in 1880 by Margarete Steiff, a seamstress. [2] [3] She began making fabric elephants that were sold in her shop as pincushions.[3] [4] [5] However, children began playing with them, and in the years following she went on to design many other animal-themed toys for children, such as monkeys, donkeys, horses, camels, pigs, mice, dogs, cats, rabbits, and giraffes.
Steiff (German pronunciation: ⓘ) most often refers to Margarete Steiff GmbH, a German plush toy company, or the toys it produces. Steiff may also refer to: Margarete Steiff (1847–1909), founder of the company; Richard Steiff (1877–1939), toy designer for the company, nephew of Margarete Steiff
Giengen is the hometown of the Margarete Steiff corporation, who invented the teddy bear. Positioned on the Nuremberg-Ulm-Constance route, one of the main feeder routes of the Compostella Trail , Giengen is visited each year by an increasing number of walking pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostella.
From November 2011 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Ralph V. Whitworth joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -47.8 percent return on your investment, compared to a 17.3 percent return from the S&P 500.
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From September 2009 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Marc L. Andreessen joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -68.8 percent return on your investment, compared to a 33.9 percent return from the S&P 500.
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