Manufacturer vs. Factory — What's the Difference?

A person or company that makes goods for sale

A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial site, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories.

A person, an enterprise, or an entity that manufactures something.

A building or group of buildings in which goods are manufactured; a plant.

A person or company that manufactures.

See factory ship.

One who manufactures.

A business establishment for commercial agents or factors in a foreign country.

A business engaged in manufacturing some product

The source of prolific production

Someone who manufactures something

The position or state of being a factor.

A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

A police station.

A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

A factory farm.

(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.

A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing