The Spray Can King: How A Turnaround Expert Is Piecing Together An Aerosol Empire

During the recession, Starco Group’s Ross Sklar found that his small business making chemicals and aerosols was struggling. So he did what any good value investor would do during a downturn: He looked for something to buy. He opened talks with one of his largest contract manufacturers, Four Star Chemical, which had a highly valuable plant in Vernon, California, south of Los Angeles, and structured a deal to acquire it at a pre-determined price only after he’d turned it around. Read more