Anchor Hocking is still around. For now. But if this pattern of private equity destroying trusted brands continues, one can only imagine how difficult it will be as a consumer to purchase well-made household commodities. I do not want to navigate a world where the provenance of every product is unknown, its white-label manufacturing origins hidden behind an alphabet soup name like MALACASA, KOMUEE, or M MCIRCO (all actual names of oven safe glassware products for sale today).
> be as a consumer to purchase well-made household commodities. I do not want to navigate a world where the provenance of every product is unknown
This is not a coincidental phenomenon, it's a deliberate end goal. Private equity is part of the problem, but more broadly the problem is that of consolidation and market incentives for behavior other than selling the best product at the best price. It's easy to blame government for not creating the right incentives or failing to create the right disincentives, but realistically corporations themselves have tremendous incentive to co-opt, subvert, and otherwise manipulate government decision-making processes and regulatory agencies.
