{"id":8663,"date":"2011-05-02T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-02T19:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:05:36","slug":"Asian-Americans-dominate-NY-s-top-minority-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=8663","title":{"rendered":"Asian Americans dominate NY’s top minority firms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asian-American firms are making it big in the Big Apple, accounting for 10 of the Top 25 minority-owned companies in the New York area<\/strong>, according to a new Crain’s list.<\/p>\n

There were nine Hispanic and Latino-owned companies and six African-American firms on the Crain’s list, which ranked the region’s 25 largest minority businesses by their 2010 revenues. The No .1 company was Goya Foods Inc., of Secaucus, N.J., with an estimated 1.7 billion in revenues last year.<\/p>\n

The top Asian-American firm on the list was information technology company ASI System Integration<\/strong>, which reported $175 million in revenues for 2010, placing No. 5 overall.<\/p>\n

Six of the 10 Asian-American-owned companies on the list operate in either apparel or construction and construction supplies<\/strong>, industries that have struggled during the recent recession. Indeed, seven of the 10 Asian-American firms on the list lost revenue from the year earlier.<\/p>\n

By Design, a Manhattan-based apparel wholesale company, was founded in 1994 by Korean-American Chief Executive Jay Lee<\/strong>. Though still successful enough to make No. 10 on the list, the company’s revenue last year dropped to $77.1 million from $87.1 million in 2009. By Design’s director of human resources, Richard Eagan, said the continuing lull in the economy, paired with some retailers’ desire to save money by sourcing their own apparel overseas, made things tough last year.<\/p>\n

The company is banking on innovation to help blunt the impact of falling revenue, acquiring a partner last summer in Los Angeles-based jeans-maker-to-the-stars David Kahn. Their high-end denims should appear in New York boutiques soon, Mr. Eagan said, noting that the move is \u201ctotally new\u201d for a company that sells mainly knits and sweaters for young women.<\/p>\n

One apparel wholesaler appears to have emerged unscathed: Lafayette 148 New York<\/strong>. The women’s apparel company ranked No. 8 on this year’s list with $100 million in revenues in 2010, up from $95 million in 2009.<\/p>\n

Chief Executive Shun Yen Sui said Lafayette 148’s success in rough times resulted from a refusal to compromise the brand and the product<\/strong>. Favorable manufacturing locations also helped: \u201cCertainly,\u201d Mr. Sui said, \u201cour vertical operations, with our own production facility in Shantou, China, give us a competitive advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite individual success stories, John Wang, president of the Manhattan-based Asian American Business Development Center, said apparel manufacturing has been falling for years<\/strong>. \u201cMuch of the manufacturing has moved to Asia, Vietnam,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd Americans are not spending as freely as before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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