America’s economic engine is compromised. Forces at work over the last 30 years have sapped our nation’s vitality. Pushing back.

With our Weight Watchers business under increasing cost pressure from our French supplier, we decided, in 1988, to design a replacement mechanism and to produce all components in the United States. With costs and sales in U.S. Dollars and our supply lines shorter, our business was stable and more profitable. We were free to focus our energies on growing our market. Life was better.

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