Narciso and Carla Rojas, co-owners of several local businesses, including the Taco Roco restaurant chain in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, are living the American dream. [ full story]
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North Hollywood resident and business entrepreneur, Patricia Reyes, last month launched ColoReyes Paper Products ™, a new company offering a colorful selection of paper products incorporating unique designs based on a regional Salvadorian painting style. [ full story] |
PR Week selected Vanguard as the Mid-Size PR Agency of the Year 2003. In the same competition, they became the first Hispanic woman-owned firm to earn the highly coveted PR Week PR Agency of the Year 2003 award. (Founder Maria Rodriguez -- pictured) [ full story] |
Since her arrival in Indianapolis, Walpole has become actively involved in the local Hispanic community. Through her own small business, she has been giving motivational presentations in an effort to inspire and give hope to students of all ages. [ full story] |
Vanguard Communications has been selected as one of five finalists in the Mid-Size PR Agency of the Year category of the 2003 PR Week Awards, sponsored by PR Week magazine. [ full story] |
During the course of the year, Hispanic Business receives hundreds of news releases, media kits, e-mails, and product samples from new and emerging small businesses. A select few possessing a remarkable business concept, marketing niche, organizational approach, or success story appear on these pages as winners of the 2002 Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards. [ full story] |
Wendel Torres, president of Springs-based Alliance General Contractors LLC, will receive an award tonight in Washington, D.C., as the top minority businessperson in the six-state region that includes Colorado. One of the 10 regional winners will receive the national title.
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In a business where hype is the name of the game, Hispanic PR Wire is the real thing. A barely 2-year-old enterprise, this Miami-based operation is already profitable and is building on its early success. Led by CEO Manny Ruiz and a team of experienced Hispanic media professionals, the company is aggressively expanding through strategic partnerships, including a recent exclusive with the National Association of Hispanic Publishers. [ full story] |
The 2001 Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards feature new and emerging businesses that possess a remarkable business concept, marketing niche, or organizational approach. [ full story] |
Victor Manuel Mayer and his partner Luis Durazo last year launched International Data Collection, Inc., a Market Research data collection company in Chula Vista, California. Less than a year old, the company has already exceeded over $1,000,000 in profitable sales and employs over 100 employees, many of who are Hispanic. [ full story] |
Brothers Angel and Willy Banos currently own Gold's Gym locations in Hollywood, North Hollywood, and Downtown Los Angeles. By combining their strong retail background with an emphasis on detail, they have succeeded in propelling themselves to the top of the industry. [ full story] |
While working together at a temporary job, brothers David and Rick Cantu recognized the enormous potential that selling refurbished Sun Microsystems products presented. With an excellent understanding of the refurbished equipment market, their company grew rapidly, with FY2000 revenues topping $57 million. [ full story] |
Raised in the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, Luis began working in his uncle's bodega when he was nine years old. As a teenager he worked as a messenger after school. He now believes his early exposure to business fueled his interest in becoming an entrepreneur. [ full story] |
As a youngster, Frank Montaño spent his summers picking cotton alongside his father, a migrant worker. Many jobs and long hours later, Mr. Montaño is now the president and chief operating officer of Moto Photo Inc., a chain of retail photo-processing stores with more than $140 million in annual sales. [ full story] |
Global Sports, Inc. (GSPN) is a web-based athletic recruiting service designed to bring high school athletes and college coaches together with the power of video and the innovative speed, flexibility and global reach of the Internet. [ full story] |
Since launching MagicBeanStalk in 1999, Mr. James M.Gutierrez has successfully guided the company's growth, secured venture capital, assembled a renowned board of advisors and led a team of more than 20 employees in San Francisco and New York City. [ full story] |
Yipes Communications, Inc., based in San Francisco, is pioneering a breakthrough in communications technology—gigabit optical IP networks. Frank R. Robles, Yipes' co-founder and Vice President of Corporate Development, is a true entrepreneur and one of the key players in bringing Yipes to its leading position in the rapidly growing optical networking services industry. [ full story] |
Pablo Tapia founded Apogee Networks in 1997 with 4 employees. Today the company has 105 employees and is rapidly growing. Apogee Networks has offices in major U.S. cities as well as regional headquarters in Great Britain, Japan and recently established its presence in Canada. [ full story] |
Producer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and record company owner, Adrian Martinez, 28, is a multi-talented musician business entrepreneur. [ full story] |
Diana Cross experienced discrimination for the first time after emigrating to the United States from Peru 10 years ago. Fresh from a master's degree in environmental engineering, Cross took a job with a successful engineering firm... [ full story] |
Gabriel Chavez could have called his company Rent-A-Tech if he'd wanted. The founder of Technology Resource Center in Santa Ana, California, makes his living providing engineers and technicians on a temporary basis... [ full story] |
Sometimes fate hands you a better deal than you could have engineered yourself. That's what happened to Robert Lopez Sr. of New York, N.Y., when he decided to leave the company where he had worked for 27 years... [ full story] |
At age 33, Omar Botero, a U.S. citizen of Colombian descent, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Insatel, a telecommunications company providing service between the United States and Latin America... [ full story] |
