Weber: 90% of Brooks Running products were sold via retail before COVID-19
Jim Weber · Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) · Acquired · May 16, 2022 · at 50:16
Jim Weber, CEO of Brooks Running, explains how vulnerable the company's distribution model was at the onset of global COVID-19 retail shutdowns in March 2020.
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“90% of our products went through a retailer.”
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