Patrick Murphy manages an Oakland company that is the Microsoft of squeegees. But it doesn't get him a whole lot of respect. "We are in the Rodney Dangerfield of businesses," said Murphy, president of ...

Ettore Products Inc. is one of those companies most people think don't exist anymore. At least not within the borders of the United States. The firm is a deeply rooted, family-owned, old world ...

Editor -- Thank you for the story on Ettore Products ("Squeegee capital; Oakland's Ettore a giant in the field," Sept. 28). In the early 1990s, when I was a teenager, my father owned a bakery in ...