His vision is being rewarded as Shigeta rejoins billionaire ranks after a 14-year absence during which he refocused his mobile phone distributor Hikari Tsushin by diversifying his product line and focusing on mobile phone contracts with large corporations.
Bold growth comes from focusing your front line on the customer experience, and because of it, Sur La Table, since starting to expand in 1995, is the second-largest kitchenware specialist chain in America.
However, our heroes in horns appeared to be on a mission in the early going yesterday, shaking off any and all bad news and instead, focusing on the goal line.