The Shakespeare Company is a subsidiary of Pure Fishing which manufactures fishing equipment. It was founded by William Shakespeare Jr. in

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in 1897. It was moved to

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in 1970. In June 2005, approximately 438,000 of their children's fishing kits were recalled after being found to contain

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