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Article Excerpt
Jose Estrada found Iris future as a small-business owner by chance.
Newly married, Estrada was looking for a job when he was offered a dispatching position for a Chicago meat processor. The native of Mexico took it, using his fluency in Spanish and English to work his way from dispatcher to a sales position for a Hudson, Wis., meat distributor.
After four years, he decided it was time to take a shot at being his own boss. Estrada took the skills he had learned and with help from the Small Business Administration and small-business counselors at SCORE, founded his own business, Estrada Foods Exporting Co. Ltd.
Today, the suburban St. Paul, Minn.-based business is racking up nearly $10 million in annual sales sending U.S.-raised meats to distributors, wholesalers, chain stores and processors, mainly...
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