Several publicly listed companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars said on Friday they had no plans to return funding they received under a U.S. government program providing emergency loans to small businesses, even though some of their peers have started to do so.
), a maker of screen protectors for mobile devices with a market value of just shy of $100 million, told Reuters on Friday they took the loans because they needed them and planned to keep them.
“COVID-19 has created operating complexities many never imagined. From sourcing material, to guarding our staff’s health and maintaining high quality production standards,” MiMedx said in a statement.
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