Del Monte Foods ( DLM - news - people ) canning plant, threatening to close down the factory until it could be cleared.

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His successor at the helm of the world's first tin canning business, John Gamble, moved the factory to Cork in Ireland in 1830, where there was a larger supply of cattle and the shipping route to the US offered an endless supply of custom.

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