ok so it looks like this is quote-unquote “true” but the only primary source is a now-deleted page which was once a digital copy of an article from a business magazine but is now only available archived (or presumably at a library in NYC) https://web.archive.org/web/20060318230325/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3718/is_200011/ai_n8927439/
so I guess it’s no wonder Wikipedia just goes [citation needed] because these sources are …not great