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10/14: Hazen White praises his workers

How leading manufacturer brought Taco back

Updated: Thursday, 25 Oct 2012, 3:59 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 12 Oct 2012, 11:15 AM EDT

This week on Executive Suite: John Hazen White Jr., president and CEO of Taco Inc.

White, who is the third generation of his family to lead Cranston-based manufacturer Taco, talks about the huge challenges his company faced two decades ago and how he turned it around. He is a staunch advocate of investing money in training employees to retain them, and thinks the state can take some basic steps to improve the struggling economy. He also shares his take from a visit to Occupy Providence last year.