Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Hanseatic League established its first formal trading factory in London in 1356. This organization operated under a powerful alliance of merchant cities across Northern Europe and functioned as fortified compounds where foreign traders could live safely.
Henry the Navigator established the first Portuguese feitoria on Arguin island off Mauritania in 1445. This coastal fortress served as a model for over fifty forts stretching from West Africa to South America between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Dejima island in Nagasaki Bay remained the only legal point of trade between Japan and outside nations during the Edo Period. The Dutch East India Company founded its first factory in 1602 to manage spice trade routes across Asia and established warehouses in locations such as Cape Town, Mocha, Calicut, Colombo, Ambon, Fort Zeelandia, Canton, and Fort Orange.
York Factory opened on Hudson Bay shores in 1697 under charter from the Hudson's Bay Company. This location served as headquarters for centuries before permanent settled colonies emerged in North America and changed hands multiple times until granted permanently to the HBC via the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
The United States government sanctioned a federal factory system operating from 1796 through 1822. These facilities scattered across mostly unsettled portions of the country under special legislation called the Indian Intercourse Acts and included examples such as Fort Clark, Fort Wayne, Fort Detroit, and Fort Chicago.