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8 Sep

The Son Of Black-Owned Grocery Store Brokerage Founders Created

Take a go searching the following time you’re at your local food market. Have you ever ever considered who’s behind ensuring those shelves are continually stocked? How the produce arrives perfectly ripe to your picking? Brandon Hill can answer that: his parents, and other people like them. For greater than 40 years, his mother and father worked within the grocery industry–each in the company sector and eventually as owners of their very own grocer brokerage–one in all the few Black founders to accomplish that. Like many others within the food distribution business, Hill’s parents experienced the ups and downs of the key economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely supply chain disruptions. Data shows that short supply may cause a 62%...
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25 Aug

Meet The Founders Behind 75 Black-Owned Skin Care And

Courtesy of Melissa Butler, The Lip Bar For greater than 50 years, ESSENCE has been a pacesetter in promoting Black-Owned beauty brands. Continuing in our tradition, we’re introducing you to the masterminds behind a number of the hottest products on the multi-billion-dollar market that ensures our Black never cracks.  From kitchen chemists to beauty industry insiders, meet the business owners who used their passion (and private experiences) to create products that commemorate our melanin from the within out! Just in time for the vacations, most of those beauty brands are offering great deals to your shopping needs. From head to toe, they got you covered. Editor’s Note: There are countless Black-owned beauty brands and we regret that we couldn't include all of them,...
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