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27 Million and Counting: George Powell, The Renewed Group
Meet George Powell, the founder and CEO of The Renewed Group, a Dallas-based manufacturer of REUSE Jeans, which are made with 80 percent recycled materials.
Posted 4/ 15 11 at 8:00 PM | 27 Million and Counting, Leadership, Starting a Business, Consumer Products & Services, Environmental Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Inventions & Innovations
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A A AStarting your own business is a noble -- not to mention exciting, rewarding and often crazy -- undertaking. The experience is an adventure, to say the least, and no two entrepreneurial paths are exactly the same, whether they result in fame and fortune or just a few hard knocks.
There are an estimated 27 million small businesses in the United States. And 27 Million and Counting is our attempt to capture as many of these unique, only-in-America success stories as we can. The premise is simple -- we give entrepreneurs 60 seconds to share their stories, in their own words. We hope they will inspire, inform and maybe make you laugh. This is George's story.
Name: George Powell
Company: The Renewed Group
Location: Dallas
Website: www.reusejeans.com
There are an estimated 27 million small businesses in the United States. And 27 Million and Counting is our attempt to capture as many of these unique, only-in-America success stories as we can. The premise is simple -- we give entrepreneurs 60 seconds to share their stories, in their own words. We hope they will inspire, inform and maybe make you laugh. This is George's story.
Name: George Powell
Company: The Renewed Group
Location: Dallas
Website: www.reusejeans.com
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When I was a kid, we wore anything we could find. We even kept the boxes our occasional new pair of shoes came in so we could make insoles to cover the holes that so soon wore into the bottom of the shoes.
I wore a Good Will suite to the Prom as a kid in High school!
I have also used card and paper to line shoes and boots. Have even torn newspaper into square for TP for my grandparents, though I think they could have afforded proper TP, just set in their old ways. Kids don't appreciate what is available to them nowadays
i use to live in the hills of tenneessee we lived in a 24x24 4 room shacktin roof we had a coal and wood stove for our heat we had electric but nothing that used it but a 4lights,a one eyeed stove that had four but only 1 worked and half a oven we had no bathroom we hardly had running waterno such thing as tolet paper no such thing as tooth brush tooth paste we hardly ever had food when we did it was always corn bread not the good kind the cheap kindand beans we used what god gave us for bathroom use out sidei could go on but people would probably not believe me we were to say the least poor