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The Spanish Tailor Who Lost Fashion - Then Built a Home-Goods Portfolio for the Amazon Age
Fast fashion broke Newlux's original business. Marketplaces gave the Alicante family company a second act - and a practical blueprint for turning old manufacturing instincts into modern consumer brands.
The 96-Year-Old Startup Behind Your Shower Curtain
Mayzon has quietly built the shower rods, curtains and bath storage in millions of American bathrooms since 1929 - and it recently taught its shower curtains to fight bacteria.
IKEA
How a Swedish teenager's mail-order side hustle became the world's largest furniture retailer - and why the whole thing runs on flat boxes, cheap Allen keys, and a foundation that answers to no shareholder.
Pattern Brands
Pattern Brands is a New York-based family of consumer home brands built around a single mission: helping people enjoy daily life. Founded in 2019 by the team behind the influential agency Gin Lane, Pattern acquires, operates, and grows leading Shopify-based home and lifestyle brands on one shared operating platform - pairing in-house operational expertise with the design sensibility that helped launch dozens of well-known DTC companies. Its portfolio has included GIR, Equal Parts, Open Spaces, Letterfolk, Yield, Poketo, Onsen, and Miracle Made.
California Closets
California Closets invented the custom closet category in 1978 and remains its most recognizable name. The company designs, manufactures, and installs personalized storage systems - walk-in closets, garages, home offices, pantries, and more - through a network of franchised and company-owned showrooms across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. A subsidiary of FirstService Brands since 1998, it pairs in-home and virtual design consultations with 3D modeling and local manufacturing to turn cluttered rooms into organized space.