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How to Remake Your Company Like Johnson Products

How to Remake Your Company Like Johnson Products

Husband and wife team Eric Brown and Renee Cottrell-Brown seek to make history and profits in ethnic haircare. Last year, they became the new owners of Johnson Products Company, the manufacturer of haircare products Afro Sheen, Ultra Sheen, and Gentle Treatment when the Procter & Gamble unit was acquired by RCJP Acquisition Inc., a partnership formed by the Browns and private equity firms Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners LP and St. Cloud Capital.

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