NewsObserver.com – Julie Waresh, Correspondent
Greensboro – Running a successful gay-friendly business might have come naturally to Bob Page, founder of Replacements Ltd.
But it hasn’t.
Still, the North Carolina native has parlayed a weekend hobby of collecting china and crystal into an $85 million business replacing pieces of discontinued patterns for customers worldwide.
“We’ve had our share of people who hate our guts,” said Page, the plain-talking chairman and chief executive officer of Replacements, which employs 550 at its Greensboro headquarters, warehouse and showroom.