Word: sneek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loyalty has never been a problem for the Brenninkmeyers. More than 100 family members occupy almost all the command posts in the company, which was started 122 years ago by Clemens and August Brenninkmeyer, German farmer's sons who opened a fabrics shop in the Dutch town of Sneek and whose descendants later pioneered in ready-to-wear. By tradition, young Brenninkmeyer men are sent around to the company's foreign stores to learn every facet of the operation. While there are no outside directors, the story in Amsterdam is that the Roman Catholic Brenninkmeyers always leave...
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