From which country does 'Belleek' porcelain come?
Belleek Pottery Belleek Pottery Belleek Pottery Ltd is a porcelain company that began trading in 1884 as the "Belleek Pottery Works Company Ltd" in Belleek, County Fermanagh, in what was to become Northern Ireland. The factory produces porcelain that is characterised by its thinness, slightly iridescent surface and that the body is formulated with a significant proportion of frit. Pottery in the region began around 1849, after John Caldwell Bloomfield inherited his father's estate. Seeking to provide employment for his tenants, who had been affected by the Irish potato famine and, being an amateur mineralogist, he ordered a geological survey of his
Belleek Pottery company, and opened a visitor centre the following year. The company changed ownership again in 1990. Dundalk-born US-based George G. Moore remains the owner, though the company is run locally by four directors. Since then Belleek Pottery has expanded its factory space, acquisitions of other companies, staff and turnover. Subsidiary companies now include Galway Crystal, Aynsley China and Donegal Parian China. It employs more than six hundred people and has an annual turnover of around £30 million. Belleek Pottery Belleek Pottery Ltd is a porcelain company that began trading in 1884 as the "Belleek Pottery Works Company Ltd" in Belleek,