Remploy

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Remploy Ltd is a government owned company in the United Kingdom which provides employment and employment placement services for disabled people. It was established in 1945 under the terms of the 1944 Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, and opened its first factory in 1946. Over the following decades it established a network of factories across the UK making a wide variety of products, and in the late 20th century it moved into service businesses.

For the year ended 31 March 2006, Remploy had turnover of £285 million, comprising £166 million of trading revenue and £119 million of government subsidy. In 2007, the government announced that 28 of Remploy's 83 factories would close or merge into other Remploy facilities. ^[1] At the same time, Remploy announced plans to increase the number of disabled people for whom it finds mainstream jobs from five thousand to twenty thousand a year.