Crate & Barrel, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Crate & Barrel comes up
Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell
- ▶ 51:13 Kip Tindell In retail, I expected Stanley Marcus or the Container Store or Crate and Barrel, one of those kind of companies to win.
- ▶ 55:29 Kip Tindell I spent a long time on the Whole Foods board, and both the container store and Whole Foods and Crate and Barrel and companies like that, we would be the first significant customer to so many vendors.
Advice Line with Andrew Abraham of Orgain
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
- ▶ 45:02 Mitchell Gold And that led us organically to be doing other things because we were making these dining chairs and our customers, especially like the crate and barrels in the higher end stores, would come to us and say, well, if you're making these…
- ▶ 46:40 Mitchell Gold And one time we had Crate and Barrel come in. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:22 Mitchell Gold I mean, the thing that when Crate and Barrel first came to see us, 2 times in the scene
Chilewich: Sandy Chilewich
- ▶ 35:00 Guy Raz When you started to, when you started to get wider distribution of the placemats, because I think probably initially you had them in, like, boutiques and gift stores, and today they're available on Amazon and Crate and Barrel and, you…
- ▶ 40:05 Sandy Chilewich Well, I mean, the lucky thing is that all the big stores like, you know, Crate and Barrel, let's say, is our biggest customer, or Sur La Table, or any of these big people, they all have web sales, and we've been building those businesses…
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
S'well: Sarah Kauss
Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal (2017)
- ▶ 0:11 Guy Raz They were going to call it barrel and crate, but eventually decided on crate and barrel. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:33 Guy Raz You could have bought half of Crate and Barrel for 10,000 bucks in, like, 1963. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 Guy Raz We're gonna be back in just a minute with more from Gordon Siegel and how he took Crate and Barrel National.
- ▶ 12:01 Guy Raz And on the show today, we're talking with Gordon Siegel about how he and his wife, Carol, built the retailer Crate and Barrel. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 Guy Raz So then you got a bank loan, and in a way you were, I mean, I guess you were betting the company, right? 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:08 Gordon Segal I was lucky to be married to Carol Siegel, who had this enormous talent, and, you know, we started out to create something that was going to be different and beautiful and wonderful, and this is still in the culture of the company and in… 6 times in the scene
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018)
- ▶ 20:33 Marcia Kilgore Creighton Barrel closed, Dina DeLuca closed, everybody closed.
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore
- ▶ 18:58 Marcia Kilgore Creighton Barrel closed, Dina DeLuca closed, everybody closed.
Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal
- ▶ 0:02 Gordon Segal Every store we opened between our opening in 62, our first built store in 65, our Plaza de Lago store in 68, uh, our Oak Brook store in 71, every time was betting the company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:41 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, the story of how Gordon Siegel and his wife Carol built the housewares empire, Crate and Barrel, from one little scrappy storefront in Chicago, and how that single shop helped change the way we furnish our…
- ▶ 6:07 Guy Raz You could have bought half of Crate and Barrel for 10,000 bucks in, like, 1963. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:11 Guy Raz We're gonna be back in just a minute with more from Gordon Siegel and how he took Crate and Barrel National.
- ▶ 11:35 Guy Raz And on the show today, we're talking with Gordon Siegel about how he and his wife, Carol, built the retailer Crate and Barrel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:46 Gordon Segal By then we had two or three staff members and we left the company to them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 Guy Raz So how did you guys start to, like, really grow the business? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:36 Guy Raz So I was reading about, about the expansion of the company, and I guess it took like, 25 years for you guys to go from one store to 17 stores. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:24 Gordon Segal And, um, I owned the responsibility to both my family and to my staff to make sure the company was well financed and could take risks and could go through trauma and survive. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:43 Gordon Segal I was lucky to be married to Carol Siegel, who had this enormous talent, and, you know, we started out to create something that was going to be different and beautiful and wonderful, and this is still in the culture of the company in great… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:01 Guy Raz Gordon Siegel officially stepped down as CEO of Crate and Barrel in 2008, but two years ago, the company actually brought him back to help out during kind of a rough patch.