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Kevin Weschler Built a Sneaker for the Turn Everyone Else Missed
A salsa class exposed an awkward choice: dress like a dancer or move like one. Kevin Weschler built Fuego in the gap, then turned two pivot points into a global footwear business.
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Consumer · Ecommerce · Logistics
Abuela's Carnitas, Ready in Five Minutes
Del Real Foods took the slow-cooked meats of a Michoacan kitchen, refused to add preservatives, and figured out how to sell them in the Costco cold case. In 2024 a Guatemalan food giant bought a controlling piece.
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Consumer · Ecommerce · Logistics
The Family That Taught American Grocers to Stock Queso Fresco
Cacique started in 1973 with a mother's cheese recipe and a father selling it door to door out of a car cooler. Fifty years on it is the country's top Hispanic cheese, crema and chorizo brand - stocked in roughly four of every five U.S. grocery stores.
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