In His Own Words

In June, Mark and Perri Barnes sold their business, Barnes Inc., to its 175 employees. In an interview, Mark Barnes describes why he made that decision:

I didn't want the legacy to be that we walked off into the sunset with a bunch of money. I realized the sale to a third party was going to mean that a lot of these people were going to lose their jobs.... It was likely their positions would be implicated by a parent company that would have bought us out. My wife and I realized that's not what we wanted.