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In a departure from its tradition of stoneware production, in 2021 Denby launched a
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in 1809 as a manufacturer of stoneware bottles. It was run by Joseph Jager in partnership with Robert
Charles George Brohier; the partnership was dissolved in 1814. By this time, clay from a deposit on the land was already in use at the Belper Pottery. At the beginning of 1815 William Bourne of the
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in tandem until 1834, when he closed down the Belper pottery and moved its equipment and workforce to Denby. Bourne later took over the Codnor Park and
Shipley Potteries, and merged them into the Denby works in a similar manner. Joseph Bourne took his son Joseph Harvey Bourne into partnership, and
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The notice of dissolution refers to "the
Partnership hereforeto carried on by the undersigned, Robert Charles George Brohier, and Joseph Jager, as Stone Bottle-Manufacturers, and otherwise, at a place called Jagersburgh, in the Parish of Denby, in the County of Derby, under the stile or firm of
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moulds, druggists' shop-jars, snuff-jars, spirit-barrels, pudding-moulds, and water filters. They also made more decorative "hunting jugs" sprigged with moulded decorations of huntsmen, windmills, men smoking or beehives, sometimes with the handle in the form of a greyhound, and
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In 2019, Denby launched the
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following expressions of interest from other companies. Hilco cancelled the sale in
January 2015 due to improvements in the company's growth. As of 2021, one of the Board members of Denby Holdings Ltd was from Valco Capital Partners LP.
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The company was subject to a £30 million management buyout in 2009, after suffering a decline in sales. The company had £72 million of debt written off at the time of the buyout.
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and Modern Deco (a patterned range) make up the
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