John Ruhlin, founder of The Ruhlin Group and top Cutco distributor, discusses Cutco Cutlery's annual business scale.
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“Cutco is is kind of a well, it's a small, big company, about two hundred fifty million in revenue out of New York.”
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“Bottom line is, is over half a million in sales was my best year, you know, back in the day when it was just knives. And our take home at that point in time after, you know, expenses and whatever else was like a 120,000.”
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“When everything came crashing down, I went to an IRS audit. I had an employee that was stealing from me. That was my accountant and a right hand person.”
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