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Jonathan Czaja Bought Back the Job He Had Walked Away From
After two decades fixing the machinery behind online retail, Jonathan Czaja turned a disagreement, a shutdown and three bruised brands into an owner's bet on patient rebuilding.
The Little Clothes That Grew Too Fast
Peek Kids made children's clothing with an adult eye for detail - then discovered that a beloved brand, 21 stores and nearly $29 million in sales could still add up to a losing business. Its second life explains the difference between growing a company and preserving what customers actually came for.
M&M Food Market Was Frozen in the ’90s - Then It Let Shoppers Open the Freezer
The Canadian frozen-food chain had a tired name, blank white boxes and a counter customers found intimidating. Its comeback began with a wonderfully literal idea: let people browse.
Larry Nusbaum
Larry Nusbaum is a consumer-products and retail turnaround executive who serves as President and Chief Marketing Officer of Work 'N Gear, the Mid-Atlantic and New England workwear, footwear and healthcare-apparel chain, and as an operating partner at Dark Alpha Capital. Over two decades he has run companies as CEO, CMO and COO across housewares, electronics, personal care, apparel and fitness, most visibly at Ronco, the Ron Popeil gadget brand he bought out of bankruptcy with Marlin Equity Partners in 2007 and steered from a reported $7.5 million annual loss to roughly $4 million in profit on about $30 million of 2009 sales. He has also led Midwest Trading Group, where he acquired the phone-accessory brand TYLT in December 2023, and restructured the artisan-goods company GlobeIn into a subscription model. At Work 'N Gear he took a 25-year-old, roughly $40 million retailer through a 2025 Chapter 11 filing, a DIP financing, a shrink from 38 stores to 26, and a April 2026 asset sale to a family-office-backed operator that repaid the lender in full and set up a relaunch of the e-commerce platform and up to ten stores.