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Article: Longtime Pennsylvania-Based Cookie-Cutter Maker Stays in the Family.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- December 23, 1996
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Dec. 23--The factory in Ivyland, Bucks County, Pa., near Philadelphia, is humming. Metal is cut, then bent with a pneumatic whoosh. Sparks fly over the spot welders.
This is cookie-cutter production.
Literally.
Fox Run Craftsmen sells 20 million cookie cutters a year, and its owners believe it is the nation's largest manufacturer of traditional tin-plate cookie cutters.
"It is a simple item, but it is something that people do enjoy," said Janet Bergman, merchandising assistant at Fox Run.
Bergman's father, John Clarke, bought the company 26 years ago when it was a small manufacturer of tin cookie cutters, ...