New York Post article today. New York city has about 875,000 business' owned by woman.
My deceased wife, after she left Wall street due mostly because of the 9/11 disaster, started a business in 2002, and closed in 2012.
She would sometimes go to woman business owners meetings (I was usually only one of a few "token" husbands present) where there would sometimes be as many as a couple of hundred woman business owners there, and I was amazed at the diversity of woman present. Young, old, in between, many different races and religions present, and a scattering of woman that had moved here from over seas only a few years earlier.
Of course, being that I was instructed to just observe and not talk much - just kidding - I didn't know the details until we got home and my wife would tell me about the meeting.
New York’s women are owning the business world
By John Aidan Byrne
April 16, 2016 | 8:00pm
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New York City’s women can lean in with the best of them when it comes to running a business.
With everything from small florists to high-tech hubs, the New York City metro area has an estimated 876,300 women-owned firms, employing 657,600 workers (excluding owners), with estimated sales this year of $140 million, accounting for roughly 10 percent of sales in the city.
Since 2002, sales at women-owned operations have grown by 48 percent, and the total number of firms by nearly 45 percent.
New York ranks first for the most women-owned firms, according to the sixth annual State of Women-Owned Businesses Report by American Express OPEN.
“Over the last 27 years, I have seen an increase in the utilization of women-owned businesses in the construction industry,” Lina Gottesman, owner of Altus, a Long Island City-based construction company that restores, installs and maintains ornamental and architectural metals, natural stone and wood, told The Post. Gottesman, who started her company more than 25 years ago, today employs about 25.
“Some of [the growth in women’s construction businesses] is because of goals set by industries to hire more women. Some has to do with changing attitudes,” said Gottesman. “I am seeing more and more women in the workforce in New York who are in construction.”
And New York is home to the fastest-growing female-owned company overall.
Sarah Kauss, CEO of beverage bottle manufacturer S’well Bottle in Chelsea, took the top spot in the survey.
Over the past two years, S’well Bottle, 100 percent owned by Kauss, saw revenue and payroll swell from about $2.5 million and three employees in 2013 to some $47 million and 40 workers last year.
Nationally, women-owned businesses are thriving, as well.
The report, which is based on historical and current US Census Bureau data and gross domestic product data, found that between 2007 and 2016, the number of women-owned firms rose by 42 percent, with women starting 1,072 (net) new businesses per day.
Additionally, the report indicates that women-owned US firms now number 11.3 million, employ nearly 9 million people and are generating more than $1.6 trillion in revenue.
Women-owned firms nationally are outpacing the US average in both post-recession job creation and revenue generation.
New York’s women are owning the business world | New York Post
My deceased wife, after she left Wall street due mostly because of the 9/11 disaster, started a business in 2002, and closed in 2012.
She would sometimes go to woman business owners meetings (I was usually only one of a few "token" husbands present) where there would sometimes be as many as a couple of hundred woman business owners there, and I was amazed at the diversity of woman present. Young, old, in between, many different races and religions present, and a scattering of woman that had moved here from over seas only a few years earlier.
Of course, being that I was instructed to just observe and not talk much - just kidding - I didn't know the details until we got home and my wife would tell me about the meeting.
New York’s women are owning the business world
By John Aidan Byrne
April 16, 2016 | 8:00pm
Modal Trigger
Photo: Shutterstock
New York City’s women can lean in with the best of them when it comes to running a business.
With everything from small florists to high-tech hubs, the New York City metro area has an estimated 876,300 women-owned firms, employing 657,600 workers (excluding owners), with estimated sales this year of $140 million, accounting for roughly 10 percent of sales in the city.
Since 2002, sales at women-owned operations have grown by 48 percent, and the total number of firms by nearly 45 percent.
New York ranks first for the most women-owned firms, according to the sixth annual State of Women-Owned Businesses Report by American Express OPEN.
“Over the last 27 years, I have seen an increase in the utilization of women-owned businesses in the construction industry,” Lina Gottesman, owner of Altus, a Long Island City-based construction company that restores, installs and maintains ornamental and architectural metals, natural stone and wood, told The Post. Gottesman, who started her company more than 25 years ago, today employs about 25.
“Some of [the growth in women’s construction businesses] is because of goals set by industries to hire more women. Some has to do with changing attitudes,” said Gottesman. “I am seeing more and more women in the workforce in New York who are in construction.”
And New York is home to the fastest-growing female-owned company overall.
Sarah Kauss, CEO of beverage bottle manufacturer S’well Bottle in Chelsea, took the top spot in the survey.
Over the past two years, S’well Bottle, 100 percent owned by Kauss, saw revenue and payroll swell from about $2.5 million and three employees in 2013 to some $47 million and 40 workers last year.
Nationally, women-owned businesses are thriving, as well.
The report, which is based on historical and current US Census Bureau data and gross domestic product data, found that between 2007 and 2016, the number of women-owned firms rose by 42 percent, with women starting 1,072 (net) new businesses per day.
Additionally, the report indicates that women-owned US firms now number 11.3 million, employ nearly 9 million people and are generating more than $1.6 trillion in revenue.
Women-owned firms nationally are outpacing the US average in both post-recession job creation and revenue generation.
New York’s women are owning the business world | New York Post
