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Brainchild Products
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- type of organization: private
- size: small (11 to 50 people)
- website: www.brainchildproducts.com
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This company is owned by Robert Croak, infamous locally for his involvement in numerous (now defunct) bars such as Frankies, Main Event, and Croakies. The company today owns a number of web-properties, including www.CustomSiliconeBracelets.com, www.CustomiJackets.com, www.DonkeyFishPoker.com, and www.VersoGroup.com The company is based in Toledo, Ohio. Founded in December, 2004 after the Tsunami disaster, the company was formed to produce and sell "Tsunami Relief" bracelets thru it's CustomSiliconeBracelets.com website.
2 ratings
Rate this employer!-
Stay FAR AWAY from this one
posted
by
Encoder
on
October 02, 2007
** UPDATE 10/20/06: **
The owner of this company called and threatened me over this review. This should tell you all you ever need to know about working for this company. Developers: My advice is to stay away.** END UPDATE **This company will be forever tainted by the heavy-handed management of its owner, Rob Croak.Rob is the picture of the slimy salesmen. He cut his teeth selling used cars, and it shows to this day.Rob uses manipulation of customers more... -
Wrong Company!
posted
by
flycrg
on
September 15, 2006
EDIT 13 SEP 2008, so apparently the review that I wrote 2 years ago got corrupted and somehow switched to another company. The review I originally wrote was for Adaptive Methods, a Northern VA based software company, and NOT for Brainchild Products. Contacting site admin to see if they can fix the mess up. From what it looks like, Brainchild Products is a company that I would not touch with a 10 foot pole though.