question: Angus Lloyd is a British businessman and fashion designer, the company, opened in what year, and became known for its pioneering use of new technologies and man-made materials in its apparel, including Velcro, made by Velcro Companies, a privately held company that produces a series of mechanical based fastening products, including fabric hook and loop fasteners?
answer: 1963
context: Title: Metaklett
  Passage: Metaklett (from German "Metall", metal + "Klettband", Velcro ribbon) is a fastening material made of steel that acts on a similar principle to conventional hook and loop fasteners.  It was developed by Reinz-Dichtungs-GmbH, Technische Universität München, Hölzel Stanz- und Feinwerktechnik GmbH & Co.  KG and Koenig Verbindungstechnik GmbH.  Metaklett is claimed to support shear strength 35 t/m² at temperatures up to 800 °C .  It consists of two complementary strips of 0.2 mm thick perforated steel with catcher and holes.  A second variant consists of two strips with protruding brushes and hooks.  There is also a hybrid variant with one metal and one synthetic fleece ribbon.
  Title: Reality Sandwich
  Passage: Reality Sandwich is a web magazine published by Evolver Holdings, Corp., a privately held company.  It is based in New York City.  The site's intent, as its tag line expresses, is "evolving consciousness, bite by bite."  Subjects run the gamut from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies.  It offers a forum for voices ranging from the ecologically pragmatic to the wildly visionary.  Content includes essays, short news stories, video clips, and audio podcasts.  Over 5,000 articles have been published on the site since its launch in May, 2007.  Ken Jordan serves as Publisher and Editorial Director.  The magazine was co-founded by Jordan with author Daniel Pinchbeck artist/designer Michael Robinson, and writer/activist Jonathan Philips.  Contributors include Douglas Rushkoff, DJ Spooky, Erik Davis, Alex Grey, Stanislav Grof, RU Sirius, Sharon Gannon, Tom Bradley, Charles Eisenstein and The Yes Men.
  Title: Frame drum
  Passage: A frame drum is a drum that has a drumhead width greater than its depth.  Usually the single drumhead is made of rawhide or man-made materials.  Shells are traditionally constructed of bent wood (rosewood, oak, ash etc.) scarf jointed together; plywood and man-made materials are also used.  Some frame drums have mechanical tuning and on many the drumhead is stretched and tacked in place.  It is the earliest skin drum known to have existed.  Examples are found in many places and cultures.  It has been suggested that they were also used to winnow grain.
  Title: Angus Lloyd
  Passage: Angus Lloyd is a British businessman and fashion designer.  In 1963, Lloyd and his business partner, Henri Strzelecki, founded the Henri Lloyd clothing line in Manchester.  Under Lloyd and Strzelecki, the company became known for its pioneering use of new technologies and man-made materials in its apparel, including Velcro, Bri-Nylon, and Gore-Tex.
  Title: Chanel
  Passage: Chanel S.A. ( ; ] ) is a French, privately held company owned by Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, who was an early business partner of the "couturière" Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.  Chanel S.A. is a high fashion house that specializes in haute couture and ready-to-wear clothes, luxury goods and fashion accessories.  In her youth, Gabrielle Chanel gained the nickname "Coco" from her time as a chanteuse.  As a fashion designer, Coco Chanel catered to women’s taste for elegance in dress, with blouses and suits, trousers and dresses, and jewellry (gemstone and bijouterie) of simple design, that replaced the opulent, over-designed, and constrictive clothes and accessories of 19th-century fashion.  The Chanel product brands have been personified by fashion models and actresses, including Inès de La Fressange, Catherine Deneuve, Carole Bouquet, Vanessa Paradis, Nicole Kidman, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Tautou, Keira Knightley and Marilyn Monroe.
  Title: Payless ShoeSource
  Passage: Payless ShoeSource Inc. is an American discount footwear retailer headquartered in Topeka, Kansas.  Established in 1956 by cousins Louis and Shaol Pozez, Payless is a privately held company owned by Blum Capital, and Golden Gate Capital.  In 1961, it became a public company as the Volume Shoe Corporation which merged with the May Department Stores Company in 1979.  In the 1980s, Payless was widely known in the U.S. for its Pro Wings line of discount sneakers, which often had Velcro straps instead of laces.  In 1996, Payless ShoeSource became an independent publicly held company.  In 2004, Payless ShoeSource announced it would exit the Parade chain and would close 100 Payless Shoe outlets.  On August 17, 2007, the company acquired the Stride Rite Corporation and changed its name to Collective Brands, Inc. The company had a total revenue for 2011 of US$ 3.4 billion.
  Title: Henri Strzelecki
  Passage: Henryk "Henri" Strzelecki MBE (4 October 1925 – 26 December 2012) was a Polish-born British fashion designer.  Strzelecki and Angus Lloyd co-founded the British clothing label, Henri Lloyd, in Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1963.  He was known as Henri to colleagues and friends.
  Title: Bettery Inc.
  Passage: BETTERY Inc. was a privately held company based in Portland, Oregon.  It provided a retail store-based reusable battery exchange service to consumers.  BETTERY kiosks or “Swap Stations” allow consumers to buy ready to use reusable AA or AAA batteries that can be used just like any other single use battery.  Once drained, the batteries can be swapped for a fully tested and charged replacement.  The company previously had placed five kiosks at Whole Foods Market locations in the Pacific Northwest and placed five additional kiosks at Whole Foods and Safeway stores in Seattle and Portland.  The BETTERY brand was sold in 2014 to Green Box Batteries, LLC, a Tacoma, WA privately held company.  Green Box Batteries, LLC has re-launched the BETTERY brand with a focus on bringing batteries to the world of subscription services much like Netflix did for DVD rentals.
  Title: US Bellows
  Passage: US Bellows is a manufacturer of metal bellows, fabric expansion joints, and metallic expansion joints including refractory lined, hinged, gimbal, slip-type, in-line pressure balanced, and elbow pressure balanced expansion joints.  It was acquired by Piping Technology and Products in 1997 from Ketema-U.S. Bellows, Inc. and is now located in Houston, Texas.  U.S. Bellows, Inc. provides a variety of expansion joints for piping and duct systems and has been a member of the Expansion Joint Manufacturers Association, Inc. since 2002.  In December 2011, U.S. Bellows acquired all bellows assets of the former Lortz Manufacturing companies, doubling its manufacturing capabilities.  It is a privately held company owned by Durga D. Agrawal.  It is a subsidiary of Piping Technology and Products.  These companies provide pipe supports and expansion joints to international companies including Dow Chemical Company, Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil, and Bechtel.
  Title: Velcro
  Passage: Velcro Companies is a privately held company that produces a series of mechanical based fastening products, including fabric hook and loop fasteners, under the brand name "Velcro".
citations: Velcro Angus Lloyd