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Article: Onetime cutlery capital Fremont, Ohio, loses another company.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- October 3, 2004
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By Gary T. Pakulski, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 3--FREMONT, Ohio -- When 127-year-old Clauss Cutlery ended operations here last week, it was another nail in the coffin of a once huge local industry that employed thousands.
With roots stretching to medieval Europe, the industry's factories churned out straight razors for laborers in the 19th century and Ginsu knives for homemakers roped in by telemarketing in the late 20th century.
One by one over the last three decades, numerous factories selling those and other products fell victim to mergers and inexpensive foreign imports, as did this community's ...