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Herman Cain bases his campaign on the idea that he was a
successful CEO and manager at Godfather's Pizza. No reporter has investigated
this claim.
Cain has released no earnings statements either during the time he was at
Godfather's Pizza or since.
If we look at sales figures which are in the public record, sales at
Godfather's Pizza, adjusted for inflation dropped over 40% from the year before
he took over to his final years. It is hard to imagine that profits went up at
this time. Godfather's Pizza fell from the 5th largest Pizza chain
when Cain took over to the 11th largest Pizza chain by the time he
left the company 15 years later.
Cain bought Godfather's Pizza in a management leveraged buyout. In general, management
leveraged buyouts are a device that company managers use to defraud
stockholders of company profits. In this case, I believe the only reason there
is no fraud in this case is because Cain was unable to produce any profits in
the years he was CEO at Godfather's
pizza. In other words, it was a fraud scheme that failed due to Cain's inept
management.
If you want to see the poor Godfather's Pizza sales figures for Cain during his
reign there, go to
click here
Please have reporters ask him to release his profit and loss statements during
his years at Godfather's, so we can judge his often repeated myth/claim that he
was a great manager.
