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According to the Asian-American Convenience Store Owners Association its 50,000 members own over 80,000 convenience stores.
That's more than half the US convenience store count of 151,282 as of Dec 31, 2013. These small retail businesses provide the public a convenient location to buy daily necessities (predominantly food and gasoline) and services. There is one convenience store for an average of every 2,100 residents all over the US with non-fuel sales of $205 billion, according to National Association of Convenience Stores.
Then there are what have come to be known as Potels or motels owned by Patels from India's Gujarat state in practically every single small town of America.
The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) is currently headed by Pratik Patel. It claims its 12,500 members, largely Indian-American, own more than 20,000 properties making up more than 40 percent of all hotels in the US.
They employ nearly 600,000 workers, accounting for over $9.4 billion in payroll annually.
Similarly there a large number of Subways and Smoothy franchises are owned by Asian Americans.

 

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According to the Asian-American Convenience Store Owners Association its 50,000 members own over 80,000 convenience stores.
That's more than half the US convenience store count of 151,282 as of Dec 31, 2013. These small retail businesses provide the public a convenient location to buy daily necessities (predominantly food and gasoline) and services. There is one convenience store for an average of every 2,100 residents all over the US with non-fuel sales of $205 billion, according to National Association of Convenience Stores.
Then there are what have come to be known as Potels or motels owned by Patels from India's Gujarat state in practically every single small town of America.
The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) is currently headed by Pratik Patel. It claims its 12,500 members, largely Indian-American, own more than 20,000 properties making up more than 40 percent of all hotels in the US.
They employ nearly 600,000 workers, accounting for over $9.4 billion in payroll annually.
Similarly there a large number of Subways and Smoothy franchises are owned by Asian Americans.

hi

what abt dunkin doghnuts?.....many dunkin doghnuts franchaise stores owned by patels....

 

[prasad1]

hi

what abt dunkin doghnuts?.....many dunkin doghnuts franchaise stores owned by patels....

Yes,
But Dunkin Doughnuts and Stuffy's sub are closing down, lot of Dunkin Doughnuts are company operated.
Of course we have business specifically for Indian, like Indian grocery, Indian beauty, Indian Food, Indian Travel agents, Indian Jewelry etc.

 

[krish44]

Yes,
But Dunkin Doughnuts and Stuffy's sub are closing down, lot of Dunkin Doughnuts are company operated.
Of course we have business specifically for Indian, like Indian grocery, Indian beauty, Indian Food, Indian Travel agents, Indian Jewelry etc.

Do you have indian plumbers, electricians,maids as in britain and other countries

indian electricians have made a name for themselves in UK for their jugaads in fixing problem . The queens consort Duke of edinburgh commented on seeing a shoddy job

that it must have been done by an indian electrician.lol

subway shops and convenience shops opening early are all manned by south asians

I have seen many indians and pakisthanis in norway in small cafes and hotels manning the counters.

 

[prasad1]

Do you have indian plumbers, electricians,maids as in britain and other countries

indian electricians have made a name for themselves in UK for their jugaads in fixing problem . The queens consort Duke of edinburgh commented on seeing a shoddy job

that it must have been done by an indian electrician.lol

subway shops and convenience shops opening early are all manned by south asians

I have seen many indians and pakisthanis in norway in small cafes and hotels manning the counters.

There are few Indian owned electrical Or Mechanical companies. There are architectural, construction, and other types of Indian owned business. Of late we see Indians working in physical labor market. I did not include them.
I was only showing the Indian owned business. Majority of Indians who came to USA starting in 1950's were mostly professionals, as American visa was given to professionals. It is only later that family members visa opened up. Then we had a wave of Gujarathi's from Africa, Sri Lanka and others who came as refugees. A lot of them did not have skills for professional jobs.

 

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Why only IS..Indian retailers are conquering the world! Read this

[h=1]Indian brands go all out to corner the foreign field[/h]


A sign above one of the shops on Via del Banco di Santo Spirito in Rome will have most Indian passers by staring hard in surprise. It reads: Fabindia . The well known indigenous clothing brand has a store in Italy? Indeed so, and in Dubai and Singapore too.

"In spite of the recession in Europe, our store in Italy continues to attract crowds," says William Bissell, Managing Director, Fabindia. "It is wonderful to have a presence in one of the fashion capitals of the world." He is equally gung ho about the two other stores. "Singapore and Dubai are important markets not because of Indian diaspora there, but because they are international shopping hubs, with considerable tourist traffic."

Exports of manufactured goods from India stood at a sizeable $120,482 million for the six months of April to November 2012, but few of the India-made consumer products that go overseas are recognizable brands there.

On the contrary, many of them, especially garments, are sold by high profile, global retailers under their own brand names. No doubt, in past decades, products such as Bajaj scooters or Kirloskar pumps made a mark in specific regions, but they were the exceptions.

In recent years, however, a handful of Indian clothing, accessories and jewellery brands have been gaining traction abroad, setting up exclusive outlets and flaunting their Indianness to successfully woo customers.


Apart from Fabindia, there is the leather accessories brand Hidesign, with nearly a dozen stores across the world, including in Moscow - where it set up its first store in 1997 - Vienna and Berlin. Jewellery major, Gitanjali Gems group, has a chain of exclusive outlets in the United States, China and Japan.

Beauty products brand Shahnaz Husain has a host of stores, including one in the heart of London and another on the Greek island of Mykonos. Even sari store Nalli Silks has set up branches in Singapore and Mountain View, California.

Though they ventured out long back, all of them have markedly aggressive in recent years.

Shahnaz Husain, for instance, opened four more exclusive retail outlets last year, all of them in spots where Indians hardly venture: Minsk in Belarus, Lima in Peru, Moscow and St Petersburg in Russia.

Fabindia's Singapore store started in January this year. Last year, Gitanjali Gems set up a store to exclusively sell diamond jewellery in Koshigaya Lake Town, Japan. Hidesign recently set up exclusive stores in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Johannesburg.

Indian brands go all out to corner the foreign field - Business Today