A California CEO Said Doing Business There “Sucks” So He Left for Texas

CEO Moves Company From California to Texas Over Costs

An apparel company CEO packed up his California headquarters and moved more than 1,300 miles to Texas, bluntly declaring that operating in the Golden State no longer makes financial sense, a decision that mirrors a broader taxpayer exodus the IRS has already documented. Hil Davis, who runs Digital Brands Group, relocated the company from Vernon, California, a small industrial city roughly five miles south of Los Angeles, to Round Rock, Texas, ju…

A California CEO Said Doing Business There “Sucks” So He Left for Texas

Hil Davis did not issue a carefully sanded statement about “headwinds.” He told Fox News Digital the truth in one blunt sentence. Doing business in the state of California sucks. Then he moved the company. Davis is CEO of Digital Brands Group, an apparel and e-commerce firm listed as DBGI. The headquarters sat in Vernon, a few miles south of Los Angeles. It now sits in Round Rock, just north of Austin, more than 1,300 miles away. The Texas build…