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From Bloomberg: Chief diversity officers have become a hot item in U.S. C-suites. After the police killing of George Floyd touched off mass protests demanding more equity for Black people last year, new hires of diversity chiefs in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index jumped to as many as a dozen monthly almost triple the rate of the previous 16 months, according to research from executive recruiter Russell Reynolds Associates. A separate analysis of a broader group of public companies found that at least 60 firms appointed their first-ever diversity leader since last May.
Agitator Pros: Partha Raghunathan (left) and Eric Katzenberger possess the energy and innovation of a start-up duo. Raghunathan holds down the business side, and Katzenberger masterminds laundering and deliveries, aiming for a gentle ecological impact. The slogan for their home service: “control-ALT-delete the paper towel.”
A Dirty Story About Clean Linens
Inside the messy battle between an international napkin cartel and a local upstart trying to claim its share of Dallas’ dining room tables.
The space inside ALTLinen’s Design District warehouse on Crampton Street is filled with a blur of white. In this serene temple to textiles, laundry tumbles in machines capable of washing 100 pounds at a time. Voices are muted over the whir of a steam press that handles a sea of bleached fabric punctuated every once in a while by a blue stripe.
One of the first nonnative permanent settlers in the Moab area was William Grandstaff, a Black farmer and cowboy who, in the 1870s and 80s, ran cattle in a canyon