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Gabbert: Father Refused to Honor Signed 1980 Buyout Agreement for Family Business
“I went, simply went to him, said, here we have the agreement, and he said, I'm not gonna do it. I said, we have a legal agreement, and he said, oh, I'm not gonna do it.”
Gabbert: Estranged from family for at least a decade after company split
“I basically didn't see family for at least 10 years.”
Domestic Manufacturing Offsets China's 30% Wage Advantage Through Freight and Quality
“And we determined that the only advantage you have making it in China is wages, right? It's about a 30% advantage in cost of product. Well, we felt like between freight and quality and a series of other things, we could make up that difference.”
Gabbert: Mid-Century Modern Was Not Mainstream Trend in Mid-20th Century
“People today think of mid-century as being popular then, but that was not the popular design at all. The popular was more of this American colonial turned legs, fabrics that had prints and flowers and birds on them.”
Gabbert: IKEA Inverted Furniture Retail by Outsourcing Manufacturing in the 1970s
“What really fascinated me was their process in that they designed everything, and then they went to, at that time, Eastern Europe to have it made. So they kind of turned the process upside down. And they said, we are the creators of the product. You are going …”
Gabbert: Father signed legal agreement to sell controlling shares of Gabbert's
“This must have been in 77, maybe, and I said, can we agree that I'm going to buy you out? I'm running the business. I've been running the business for a while. Things are going pretty well, and we had a legal document signed that I would buy his, enough of his…”
John Gabbert traded 30% Gabberts stake for full Room & Board ownership
“I own about 30% of the business, and I would trade that 30% for the full ownership of room and board.”
Gabbert: Wasted eight years pursuing multiple side ventures before focusing Room & Board
“I spent those next six or eight, eight years. I did a variety of things. I started a business called bedrooms for kids. I had a wholesale showroom. I bought a design studio. So I spent, as I look at it now, I kind of wasted eight years doing things instead of …”