Volkseigener Betrieb
Small embroidery businesses merged into collectives such as the "Produktionsgenossenschaften des Handwerks (PGH) Sticktex" or the "Eibenstocker Buntstickerei", but then in 1972, these were converted into a "Volkseigener Betrieb" (“nationally owned business”, a kind of enterprise found in the former East Germany)