If you make a great product, you don’t go bankrupt. You just keep making that product. Many mature brands like Coke or Tide have low single digit growth rates because they only grow at the population growth rate. People do not “need more Tide”, despite what the latest commercial says.
I don’t know the details, but it sounds like the brand was mismanaged:
weighed down by more than $500 million in debt after years of supply-chain chaos and limited success expanding the Instant brand into other categories of household gadgetry
The title of the article sounds incorrect. You can’t fail because of a great product, but you can mismanage it. Especially if you are a private equity firm who tried to use debt to grow right before a pandemic.
If you make a great product, you don’t go bankrupt. You just keep making that product. Many mature brands like Coke or Tide have low single digit growth rates because they only grow at the population growth rate. People do not “need more Tide”, despite what the latest commercial says.
I don’t know the details, but it sounds like the brand was mismanaged:
The title of the article sounds incorrect. You can’t fail because of a great product, but you can mismanage it. Especially if you are a private equity firm who tried to use debt to grow right before a pandemic.