Like Righteous Babe, they were all so intimately connected to the place where they were located that it was hard to imagine them being anywhere else. Zingerman’s was almost synonymous with Ann Arbor, and Anchor Brewing was a San Francisco institution. CitiStorage was Brooklyn to the core. Reell Precision Manufacturing and the Twin Cities went together like, well, a horse and carriage. The same could be said for Clif Bar and Berkeley, ECCO and Boise, O.C. Tanner and Salt Lake City, Hammerhead and Studio City, and on and on. And the influence ran both ways. The companies shaped their respective
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