How Remus Baesu escaped across borders, built a construction empire, and created a five- franchise family business spanning Arizona to Hawaii 1989: The Great Escape Just months before the Romanian Revolution would topple Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist regime, Remus Baesu made a decision that would change his life forever. Born and raised in Arad, a city […]
As an immigrant, you possess unique advantages that can make you exceptionally successful in franchising. Here’s how to leverage your background for maximum business success. Franchisors across America are taking notice: immigrants are rapidly becoming the backbone of their franchise networks. From fast-food chains to service businesses, franchise brands are reporting that immigrant entrepreneurs now […]
COIT A Legacy of Innovation and Quality COIT was founded by Lou Kearn, who introduced drapery cleaning services backed by a satisfaction guarantee—a novel concept at the time . This commitment to quality and customer satisfaction laid the foundation for COIT’s expansion into various cleaning services, including carpet, upholstery, tile and grout, air ducts, […]
Featured Business Opportunity EcoGreen Lawn Care Franchise Own a EcoGreen Lawn Care franchise and provide your clients with lawn care that is Safer by Nature with 100% organic proprietary lawn care products. Why Own an EcoGreen Lawn Care Franchise? Large & Growing Market The lawn care industry had an estimated worth of […]
Ty Lav’s family escaped Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge uprising with only the clothes on their backs, but in the years following, America has proved to be not just a refuge, but a land of opportunity and salvation. For Ty Lav’s family, coming to America was literally a matter of life and death. Cambodians of Chinese ancestry, […]
Immigrant Business Statistics: Name: Thomas DeGeest Country of Origin: Belgium Emigrated to the U.S.: 1997 Launched W&D: 2007 Annual Revenue: $5 million Jobs Created: 100 Thomas DeGeest traded in his six-figure IBM job, escaped PowerPoint hell and followed his dream of bringing authentic Belgian waffles to the streets of New York City. Thomas DeGeest had a six-figure job at IBM when […]
Crowdfunding is hot right now, but is it right for you? Learn crowdfunding’s pros and cons in this revealing interview with Evan Cohen, a top executive of Indiegogo. Immigrant Business: Indiegogo has become one the of the top three crowdfunding sites on the web in a few short years. How did it get started? Cohen. Basically, our three […]
Russian immigrant Michael Smolyansky found inspiration in a childhood drink. Today, his son Edward and daughter Julie (pictured above) lead a food empire with $130 million in annual revenue. Michael Smolyansky came to Chicago in the 1970s from the Soviet Union, a young man with a dream common to many immigrants coming to the U.S.—the chance […]
The ‘We Buy Ugly Houses®’ franchise helps entrepreneurs move into real estate “We Buy Ugly Houses®.” You’ve seen that slogan, which is up on billboards and other advertising platforms around the country. It’s catchy, fun and provocative. But as a business strategy, it’s also hugely effective—and the basis for a very successful franchising model. HomeVestors […]
How Nordic Naturals founder Joar Opheim revamped his sales strategy—and what you can learn from his pivot. When Norwegian immigrant Joar Opheim, the founder of Nordic Naturals, started to market his fish-oil supplements in the 1990’s, health food stores and vitamin retailers seemed like the ideal target. So, he began pounding the pavement, talking up […]
