companyThe Profit · Season 6, Episode 2 · Aired December 11, 2018
Queork
New Orleans, Louisiana
It has since closed.
What happened after
Cork-products retailer (bags, wallets, home goods) that operated two French Quarter/Garden District storefronts (838 Chartres St and 3005 Magazine St); queork.com now redirects to a HugeDomains 'domain for sale' parked page ($6,695).
What happened on the show
Queork was a New Orleans retailer built around an unusual material, cork, which it turned into bags, wallets, and home goods sold from two storefronts, one in the French Quarter on Chartres Street and another in the Garden District on Magazine Street. Beyond the distinctive product and the two locations, the specific terms of Marcus's involvement are not something our records pin down with confidence, and we would rather say so than invent a deal. What the show reliably represented was the shape of the problem for a business like this, a novel product with real appeal that needed the operational discipline, the branding, and the growth strategy to turn a local curiosity into something durable. Cork goods gave Queork a genuine point of difference in a crowded accessories market, and the challenge was building a sustainable business around it rather than proving the concept itself.
After the cameras left
Queork has closed. The queork.com domain now redirects to a parked, for sale page, which we verified directly, the clearest signal that the retailer is gone. There is a conflicting note worth flagging, a Facebook snippet thanking customers for supporting Queork over nine years through its stores, online, and wholesale, though the post's date was impossible to fix and might well predate the domain going up for sale. We could not independently reconfirm the two storefronts as currently vacant. On balance, the dead, for sale domain points to closure. Medium confidence closed as of 2026.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.