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- <text id=89TT1331>
- <title>
- May 22, 1989: Business Notes:Minority Enterprise
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 22, 1989 Politics, Panama-Style
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 89
- Business Notes
- MINORITY ENTERPRISE
- Doing It for Themselves
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Stephen Yelity, 39, was an accounting manager for Johnson
- & Johnson, when he decided to start his own computer software
- firm six years ago. Accurate Information Systems (1988 sales:
- $10.5 million), based in South Plainfield, N.J., is now the 65th
- largest black-owned firm in the U.S., according to Black
- Enterprise magazine.
- </p>
- <p> Like Yelity, a growing number of black executives are
- leaving large corporations to set up their own companies. During
- 1988, Black Enterprise reports, sales of the 100 largest
- black-owned firms grew 10.2%, compared with 7.6% sales growth
- for FORTUNE 500 firms. Largest by far: TLC Beatrice
- International Holdings (1988 revenues: $1.96 billion), a
- multinational food-processing concern acquired by Reginald Lewis
- in a $985 million leveraged buyout two years ago.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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