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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chris Marshall, post: 11409369, member: 206&quot;]Not really; B&amp;D never actually owned a factory in Austria. Shown &#039;eagle &amp; fish&#039; mark was a mark derived from a registered mark of the original manufacturer which produced those goods and custom-marked them for B&amp;D, namely the factory of Carl Knoll in Fischern. Another business supplying them was the TK Thun factory (which also custom-marked the products in such cases).</p><p><br /></p><p>B&amp;D - like so many others - also never had a factory or decoration studio &quot;in Carlsbad&quot;, for pretty obvious reasons. People seem to forget that Carlsbad - as internationally renown air and water spa and in-scene Royalty hangout - never allowed any type of businesses which could have endangered the air or water quality (and firing china was a damn dirty business back then).</p><p><br /></p><p>This is often completely ignored in US literature on the matter. Companies in question often had nothing more than shared (!) showrooms and/or sales offices there (similar to the French Limoges area, by the way). A matter of representation / marketing. Sure, there are a lot of business cards and ads around, but those are not improved by what badly informed people Google-translated or AI-raped out of them. The constant misunderstanding of the term &quot;Niederlage&quot; comes into mind (which once stood for branch/subsidiary, nowadays only &quot;defeat&quot;).&nbsp; Such shifts in meaning are a constant in every language - just think about the term &quot;gay&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, enough for now <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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