Company ordered to keep extremely slow breed of sheep (8)
I believe the answer is:
cotswold
'breed of sheep' is the definition.
'Cotswold' can be an answer for 'sheep' (breed of sheep). I'm not sure about the 'breed of' bit.
'company ordered to keep extremely slow' is the wordplay.
'company' becomes 'co' (abbreviation).
'ordered' becomes 'told' ('tell' can be a synonym of 'order').
'to keep' indicates putting letters inside.
'extremely' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only the extremes of the word are used).
'slow' with its centre taken out is 'sw'.
'told' going around 'sw' is 'tswold'.
'co'+'tswold'='COTSWOLD'
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