Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. People also ask

  2. Jul 14, 2014 · Virginia furniture owner John Bassett III was determined to beat out foreign competitors. Author Beth Macy documents him, and the collapse of the U.S. furniture industry, in her new book,...

  3. Jul 10, 2014 · It is the workplace of John Bassett III, a onetime heir to Bassett Furniture who, in 1982, was elbowed out of Bassett—the company and the town—by his older brother-in-law, Bob Spilman, who had ...

  4. Aug 12, 2014 · John Bassett III may be the very model of the great American hero for the globalization era; a corporate leader who made good use of perseverance, cunning, and a little luck to protect hundreds...

    • Ethan Rouen
  5. Aug 27, 2014 · In the book “Factory Man,” writer Beth Macy tells the story of John Bassett III, a third-generation factory owner who bucked the trend and helped file one of the largest anti-dumping cases against China that the International Trade Commission has seen.

    • Rahel Gebreyes
  6. John D. Bassett (b.1938), chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co., is a champion of American-made furniture and the third generation to work in the furniture industry.

  7. Jul 15, 2014 · He's inspirational. He's a sawdust-covered good-old boy from rural Virginia, a larger-than-life figure who has stood almost single-handedly against the outflow of furniture jobs from America.

  8. Jul 15, 2014 · This is the story of John Bassett III, heir to the men who started the Bassett furniture companies back in 1902. It tells about the history of the family business, the power struggles within the family, and JBIII's fight with Chinese imports due to their impact on the furniture industry.

  1. People also search for