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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
The creator of the Pulitzer-Prize winning smash hit Broadway musical Hamilton has some powerful words about the immense value of immigrants in American society. During a memorable and stirring commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania on May 16, Lin-Manuel Miranda reminded everyone that immigrants are the backbone of Hamilton (the hiphop-infused story of Alexander […]
Immigrant Business Statistics: Name: Tom Szaky | Country of Origin: Hungary | Business name: Terracycle | Location: Trenton, NJ | Annual Revenue: $13 Million | Jobs Created: 75 “Where there’s muck, there’s brass.” An old Yorkshire saying, it means there’s money in garbage. A young immigrant is making millions from “muck” and saving the environment […]
Immigrant Business Statistics: Name: Nadir. Country of Origin: Turkey. Immigrated to US: 1996; Business name: Green Branch Cleaners. Location: Branchburg, NJ. Launched: 2014. Annual Revenue: $200,000. How an immigrant family in New Jersey took the classic route to the American Dream, working long hours, saving their money so they could buy their own business, and then […]
Immigrant Business Statistics: Name: Shradha Agarwal | Country of Origin: India Emigrated to the U.S.: 2006 | Company: Context Media | Annual Revenue: $20 million | Jobs Created: 61 Overview When she was in fourth grade in Calcutta, Shradha Agarwal started a business lending books to classmates for a small fee. When her teacher found out, she […]
Working hand-in glove with the franchisor and becoming a visible part of the community have made Pestmaster Services a force to be reckoned with in New York’s Hudson Valley, Although he grew up on the sunny beaches of Florida, Paul Alley (pictured above, right) headed to the cold northeast when it came time to build a […]
