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Keeping Those Refrigerators Running
FromThe Distance
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Length:
3 minutes
Released:
Apr 19, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In the early 80s, long before he became the CEO of LION, his family-owned manufacturing company, Steve Schwartz ran his college fraternity's refrigerator rental business. Fridges are a far cry from LION's core business of making protective gear for firefighters, but that early experience gave Steve his first taste of entrepreneurism.
Released:
Apr 19, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (84)
Ideal Box Co.: When Al Capone needed crates to smuggle liquor to his speakeasies, he bought boxes from a Chicago manufacturer called Ideal Box Co. Today, the company is run the Eisen brothers, whose great-grandfather started the business in 1924, and the Eisens are sha by The Distance