Worker Owned Pingree Is Stitching Together Success In Detroit
On today's episode, we hit the vault to re-tell a story originally aired in May.
We're taking a look at a company that's making high-end leather goods right here in the city of Detroit, putting Detroiters and veterans to work.
We're talking about Pingree Detroit, based just about a block away from the well-known Shinola. Pingree is a worker-owned company formed as an L3C — a special type of company that puts both the bottom line and the social mission of the company first.
And when there are profits, 77 cents of every dollar is shared with the workers.
Pingree just made their 100th pair of…
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