Remploy

Remploy is an organisation owned by the Department for Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom which provides employment and employment placement services for disabled people. It is classified as a non-departmental public body and is structured as a company limited by guarantee. It was established in 1945 under the terms of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944, and opened its first factory in Bridgend, Wales, in 1946. Over the following decades it established a network of 83 factories across the UK making a wide variety of products, and in the late 20th century it moved into service businesses.