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Instant Pot maker seeks bankruptcy protection - NPR
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Am I reading this right?
Pyrex seems like a way bigger deal than instant pot, and those others are also well-known. Is this just a restructuring thing where they will screw creditors and then continue on? Or they will sell off the brand names to some new companies that may or may not keep the same quality?
Only speculating but I think this is a symptom of late stage capitalism. Companies are staking enormous risk on leveraged finances to achieve impossible stock prices. And if they miss, they're done. They collapse and get rolled into giant multinationals to funnel even more money to the top.
Its always been like this though. Back in the 60s no one would have thought the Victor Company and RCA were approaching deaths door step, but they made a few big mistakes and got out competed in just a short time.
Corning seems like a way bigger deal than Pyrex too… between them and AnchorHawking they essentially own the industrial glassware industry. Pyrex is only a small part of that; it also spans things like smartphone screens and lab equipment.
That said, Corning has bought a lot of companies of questionable quality in the last decade; sounds like now they’re being forced to divest some of those properties.
Corning is not CorningWare. Corning Inc sold their entire consumer products division off. Corning Inc (makers of Gorilla Glass and fiber optic cable) is just fine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CorningWare