
Essie Weingarten
From Scratch with Jessica Harris
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Why Did You Sell?
In two thousand seven, business was really good. We were going to be adding on to our building. And then as the economy started to get funky in two thousand eight, i put the stop sign up and i said, let's wait and see what's going to happen. Instead, our business just kept on growing double digits, and we were busting at the seams. I mean, we really were working like three shifts around the clock. Ah, we had no more room. Wil you need a capital to expand no, we had o capital. We just needed, you needed location number one. California, they got it in a week. New york, new rsey,
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Essie started her eponymous brand in 1981 with $10,000 after working in the hosiery business. When 
