Cookware

The Brand You Trust Is a Trap: How Private Equity Ruined Pyrex and All-Clad

Private equity firms are buying beloved cookware brands like Pyrex and All-Clad, then systematically degrading product quality while riding the brand’s old reputation. Consumers pay a premium for a memory, funding the very force that’s making their pans worse. The solution: stop buying on reputation, buy on current reality.