Company · Consumer Products · founded 1870
McCall Pattern Company
Home sewing pattern maker founded in 1870. Reginald Lewis's TLC Group bought it from Esmark as its first major deal and later sold it at a roughly 90-to-1 return to investors.
Of the 1 person here linked to McCall Pattern Company, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at McCall Pattern Company
Investor Past
Role
Bought the company through TLC Group and turned it around before selling
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia gives the purchase price ($22.5 million), a $1 million equity raise from family and friends, and a later sale at a 90-to-1 return, but no purchase or sale year. The profile text dates the purchase to 1984 and the sale to 1987 from other sources.
Finance 5 / 9
Reginald F. Lewis
Chairman and CEO, TLC Beatrice International
working-class · outsider · graduate degree