After nearly 30 years of selling goods on networks like QVC and HSN, inventor Joy Mangano is launching CleanBoss, a line of hand sanitizing products.
The launch comes as more U.S. cities implement COVID-19 guidelines with cases spiking nationwide. Mangano said the product has been in development for at least five years, but because of the pandemic, she reprioritized the CleanBoss line to get it to market.
This launch, unlike others, was done without a home-shopping platform - a process Mangano describes as “different and not different." She split from HSN in 2018.
While she doesn’t spend hundreds of hours a year selling goods on television anymore, Mangano is embracing social media and the leverage it provides to remain competitive.
“I reinvented myself after standing in front of America in one way for 30 years,” she said.
Despite a difficult time for the economy, Mangano said entrepreneurs can still find success by looking at long-term opportunities.
She also said the social media outlets available today offer "a very big value" for businesses.
“There are so many different ways and different platforms today for people, not just big business out there. The entrepreneur has more paths today than they’ve ever had historically in business and I think that that's a really good thing.”
Mangano’s remarkable life story became common knowledge when it got the big-screen treatment with the 2015 release of Joy, starring Jennifer Lawrence. Now the entrepreneur's story is set to be told on Broadway - once theaters are allowed to reopen.
“I'm very, very excited because it’s going to be such a wonderful story of inspiration and entertaining. The music’s phenomenal,” she said.
The former HSN all-star is also gearing up for a new network television show that is expected to roll out in 2021, she revealed.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is set to lead a protest march on Wall Street to urge corporate America to resist the Trump administration’s campaign to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The New York civil rights leader will join clergy, labor and community leaders Thursday in a demonstration through Manhattan’s Financial District that’s timed with the anniversary of the Civil Rights-era March on Washington in 1963. Sharpton called DEI the “civil rights fight of our generation." He and other Black leaders have called for boycotting American retailers that scaled backed policies and programs aimed at bolstering diversity and reducing discrimination in their ranks.
President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a $1.2 billion contract to build and operate what's expected to become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex to a tiny Virginia firm with no experience running correction facilities.
Chipmaker Nvidia is poised to release a quarterly report that could provide a better sense of whether the stock market has been riding an overhyped artificial intelligence bubble or is being propelled by a technological boom that’s still gathering momentum.
Cracker Barrel said late Tuesday it’s returning to its old logo after critics — including President Donald Trump — protested the company’s plan to modernize.
Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the U.S. this week as part of President Donald Trump's agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods. A widely used customs exemption for international shipments worth $800 or less is set to end starting on Friday. Trump already ended the “de minimis” rule for inexpensive items sent from China and Hong Kong, but having to pay import taxes on small parcels from everywhere else likely will be a big change for some small businesses and online shoppers. Purchases that previously entered the U.S. without needing to clear customs will be subject to the origin country’s tariff rate, which can range from 10% to 50%.
Southwest Airlines will soon require plus-size travelers to pay for an extra seat in advance if they can't fit within the armrests of one seat. This change is part of several updates the airline is making. The new rule starts on Jan. 27, the same day Southwest begins assigning seats. Currently, plus-size passengers can pay for an extra seat in advance and later get a refund, or request a free extra seat at the airport. Under the new policy, refunds are still possible but not guaranteed. Southwest said in a statement it is updating policies to prepare for assigned seating next year.
Cracker Barrel is sticking with its new logo. For now. But the chain is also apologizing to fans who were angered when the change was announced last week.
Elon Musk on Monday targeted Apple and OpenAI in an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the iPhone maker and the ChatGPT maker are teaming up to thwart competition in artificial intelligence.
