In 2003, Rochdale Spears Group chairman and founder Geoff Hawkes went all-in on Vietnam, constructing the beginnings of what is now a 2.2-million-square-foot, vertically integrated manufacturing footprint with a foundry and sawmill. Today, the company—which operates its own SONDER Living line, a robust hospitality program, and provides product design and manufacturing for the likes of RH, Anthropologie and Williams-Sonoma, Inc.—wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Hawkes tells BOH how he built his business abroad.... continued in the full article.