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Nasty Gal: When a Disrupter Isn’t Disruptive Enough

FLEXE

an online retailer focused on fast fashion for millennials, has gone from generating $85 million in revenue in 2014 to bankrupt in 2016… What happened? With gumption, she did what any entrepreneurial, then-22-year-old would do: turn to social media to promote her inventory and fledgling business. Nasty Gal Inc.,

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Obsolete and excess inventory carriage are more preventable. from abroad (mostly between 2010 and 2014, per Moser). Of those, General Electric brought 1,900 jobs to New York, Ohio, and Kentucky to produce industrial batteries, lightbulbs, and appliances. Professional time and travel for international business is costly.