The Panini sticker factory – in pictures

A man selling completed Panini World Cup stickers books at the Arena de Sao Paolo Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

A cardboard cutout of Neymar greets visitors to the factory Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Workers take a lunch break outside the innocuous looking building Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Huge piles of newly printed sticker sheets – while the bulk of the stickers have been printed and distributed, late alterations to teams' line-ups means replacement stickers have to be printed Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Women collecting sheets of the late selection players Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Factory workers sort the prints into stacks Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Piles of empty sticker books Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Sheets of newly printed late selection players piled high Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Cutting the stickers in a guillotine Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

A silver packet – unique to South America to combat the higher levels of counterfeiting in the country Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Collecting sheets of the new stickers Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Sorting individual stickers into piles Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Women passing sheets of the late selection players Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Workers collecting individual stickers in the 'on demand' section where customers' requests are handled Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

Sorting individual stickers into piles Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins

José Martins, the Chief Executive, looks at a completed sticker album in the boardroom Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Tom Jenkins