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Quick ReadPort Washington grooming company continues to grow.

Dal LaMagna is the founder of Port Washington-based

Photo credit: Newsday/Michael E. Ach | Dal LaMagna is the founder of Port Washington-based Tweezerman Corp. He sold the company in 2004. (Dec. 21, 2004)

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Lots has changed at Port Washington-based Tweezerman Corp., the grooming supply company, since Dal LaMagna - who founded it in 1980 on $500 - sold it in 2004 to Zwilling J.A. Henckels AG, the German maker of high-class cutlery, for $50 million.

About the biggest change at Tweezerman, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, is that LaMagna is no longer around, living now in Washington...

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