Companies

With all the grief that Bill and Kevin give the US government about its misguided interventions in the free market (quite often deservedly), it's…

It's been a while since we updated you on Joseph Abboud, the suit manufacturing that is leveraging lean manufacturing to keep its factory in the U…

One of our favorite companies, American Apparel, is at it again. A hat tip to Peter for apparently browsing their online catalog to find this new prod…

One of our favorite CEOs, Dov Charney of American Apparel, just received some love from The Independent of Ireland. This summer Charney will bring…

A couple days ago I received the annual report from one of my favorite lean-oriented companies, Danaher. Like most companies they are grappling with t…

Well, GM is in the news again, this time for refusing to cancel its program that gives a company car and company-paid gas for about 8,000 white-collar…

Regular readers know I have a fascination for American Apparel, and even their CEO Dov Charney. I was lucky enough to get a tour a few months back.…

Häagen-Dazs, owned by ice cream giant Dreyer's, just announced that they're "downsizing" their pints of ice cream. In a truly Orwell…