Hans Snook Executive of a wireless paging business (which subsequently became part of the Hutchison Whampoa Group). In 1992 Snook was despatched to the UK and closed Hutchison's Rabbit phone system; and instead turned efforts to developing the UK's fourth mobile phone network. On April 28, 1994 Orange was launched. Within five years Orange had developed an enviable reputation as well as a growing international presence. Mannesmann of Germany purchased Orange Plc, in a failed attempt to challenge Vodafone as the World's leading mobile phone company. This set off a chain of events which resulted in France Télécom taking ownership of Orange,
Hans Völk Dolls died on August 5, 1989, and Otto on June 29, 1995, the ownership was left to their daughter, Barbara Buchner. It was Barbara who in 1997 gave up the polymer processing and instead focused on producing and selling classical Völk dolls, as well as nostalgic collector sets. In May 2002 Barbara decided that the doll department were to be continued by the doll-manufacturing company Engel-Puppen. The company introduced Völk dolls made in classical procedures under the Hans Völk trade mark. Hans Völk Dolls Hans Völk Dolls is a German doll manufacturing company owned by Engel-Puppen. Founded by puppeteer Hans Völk