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Eddie Wang used smart, aggressive selling to build a $12 million clothing company, Ming Wang Knits, from scratch. Learn how he did it. Eddie Wang didn’t know a soul in the U.S. when he and his wife Ming started looking for contract knitting work in the U.S. in 1978. Today, their clothing line sells in […]
The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 Thursday over a challenge to President Obama’s immigration policy, leaving in place an appeals court ruling blocking a plan to shield millions of immigrants from deportation and allow them to work. Various media reports point to the decision as adding more fuel to an already intensely heated political season. […]
Name: Mark Wilkins | Country of Origin: U.K. | Emigrated to the U.S.: 1997 | Launched: Stampede Presentation Products 1998 | Annual Revenues: $120 million | Jobs Created: 85 Like countless immigrants before him, Mark Wilkins came to the United States because it offered limitless opportunity. Wilkins, who headed a British audiovisual company, moved to the […]
Name: America Corrales-Bortin | Country of Origin: Mexico | Emigrated to the U.S.: 1995 | Launched: America’s Taco Shop 2008 | Annual Revenues: $2.4 million | Jobs Created: 150 A field worker’s daughter from Mexico uses her family heritage to build a successful nationwide franchise: America’s Taco Shop. When she arrived from Mexico as a […]
Donald Trump has doubled down on his controversial call for a ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S., saying the massacre in Orlando justified his controversial policy to keep foreign Muslims from entering the country for an indefinite period of time. Trump said he would “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is […]
Sandy Tsangaroulis drew on the training she got in her home country to create Spa at Bedminster, a thriving beauty business. When Sandy Tsangaroulis came to the U.S. from Greece with her husband, she had never lived more than an hour away from the island on which she grew up, and she spoke very little […]
Immigrant Business Magazine will host its first conference, “The Immigrant’s Guide to Success in the US” on Saturday, June 18, 2016, in Houston, Texas at the Westin Galleria Hotel. This all-day event, sponsored by Nissan and Paychex, will bring together seasoned entrepreneurs, corporations, lenders and government agencies, as well as emerging immigrant-owned firms, and provide information, tools and resources to help […]
Immigrant Business Statistics: Name: Rohit Arora | Country of Origin: India | Business name: Biz2Credit | Location: New York, NY | Annual Revenue: $14 Million | Jobs Created: 14 Overlooked immigrant market creates opportunity for Indian entrepreneur. If you want to find an entrepreneur who has made the most of his foreign advantage, Rohit Arora […]
Launched by President Obama in 2014, Immigrant Heritage Month is celebrating it’s third anniversary in June by teaming up with more than 50 high-profile artists and entertainers to reclaim the word immigrant and encourage others to do the same. “We are a nation of immigrants, and I hope we have the wisdom to understand that […]
A Honduran immigrant combined the spicy flavors from her homeland with native cacoa to make chocolate a hot business. Born in a mountain village in Honduras, Maribel was always a hard worker. At the age of eight she made penny candies and sold them to the other children, earning the nickname “Caramel.” Now she’s […]
