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“The company itself was set up back in the early 1990s, just after the Velvet Revolution. Gufex was founded by my stepfather, Karel Mráček. He must have got in early, because when he first registered as a business, he was handed the region’s trade authorisation number one,” says Kateřina Zubíčková, who spearheads the company these days.