Hello and welcome back. In today's Black Exilist presentation, we will highlight the top 10 Black-owned businesses. Welcome to BlackExcelist.com, the site where we celebrate Black excellence, opulence, and affluence. Our mission is to inspire you as we enlighten you. African American entrepreneurs own more than 2.6 million affirms and are building some of the nation's brightest, innovating, and fastest growing companies. Black Enterprise publishes an annual list, BE 100s, which ranks America's largest Black-owned companies, including automobile dealers, banks, asset managers, investment banks, and private equity firms. Black Enterprise's list is universally recognized as the most authoritative analysis in annual ranking of the nation's highest-earning Black-owned companies. Even when and where you can, support Black-owned businesses because money equals power. And by supporting Black-owned businesses, African American consumers are exerting an enormous amount of power to develop Black economic dominance, power to create new jobs within our community, and power to build generational Black-o-elf. In this original Black Excelist video, we will be featuring the top 10 businesses owned by African Americans. So without further ado, let's get started. 1. Worldwide Technology Inc. Coming in at the number one spot is Worldwide Technology. Worldwide Technology has an annual revenue estimated at more than $9 billion. It is a technology service provider founded in 1990 by David Stewart, based in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Worldwide Technology offers technology and supply chain solutions to federal government, state and local government, education, telecommunications, healthcare, retail, and utilities. They also serve oil in gas customers and suppliers worldwide. 2. Act One Group Companies with staffing, human resources, or business concerns turn to Janice Bryant Harrod and Act One Group Company for their expertise. Harrod leveraged a $900 loan from her mom to help build the consulting and business services firm with over $1 billion in annual revenue. In fact, Harrod is the first African American woman to operate a company that generates more than $1 billion in annual revenue. The North Carolina A&T State University graduate founded Act One, headquartered in Torrance, California, in 1978. And she is CEO of what is now the second highest revenue-earning Black owned company, and the nation's largest woman and minority-owned employment services company in the US. 3. Bridgewater Interiors LLC Dechorate Company Bridgewater Interiors ranks number three on our list of Black owned companies. It is an automotive-seeding manufacturing company, specializing in just-in-time manufacturing, sequencing, and delivery of automotive parts such as seating, overhead, and central console systems. Since 1998, this Tier 1 supplier has supplied automotive manufacturers, such as Ford and General Motors, with some of the highest quality products in the industry. The waters and terriers currently assemble seating systems across 15 distinct car models for major automotive manufacturers, at three facilities in Michigan and one in Alabama. 4. Piston Group Piston Group designs, develops, manufacturers, supplies, and exports automotive parts, systems and assemblies. The fourth highest-earning Black owned company was founded in 1995, and is privately owned by former Detroit Piston basketball player and two-time NVA champion, Vinny Johnson, who serves as CEO. Based in Redford, Michigan, Piston Group specializes in the areas of process engineering, design and development, advanced assembly and manufacturing, supply chain management, and product design and prototype testing. It also offers products and services for electric and hybrid vehicle battery systems. 5. Modular Assembly Innovations LLC Modular Assembly Innovations located in Dublin, Ohio is the parent corporation of a group of certified minority owned companies offering manufacturing and assembly solutions to manufacturers. In addition to modular assembly, they also provide supply chain management and sequential parts delivery to the automotive industry. In 2011, Billy Victor established the privately held modular assembly innovations, which is now the fifth highest-earning Black owned company in the US. He is one of the first to be hired as president and chief operating officer. We would like to thank Haydn T. Joseph and company. They are an international tax team who can help American entrepreneurs and business owners expand and operate internationally. In particular, Haydn T. Joseph and company helps American business owners expand to Southeast Asia. Visit www.htj.tax or check out their link in the description box below. 6. Mana Inc Founded by former NBA player Ulysses Bridgeman in 1987, this Lewisville Kentucky based company is one of the nation's largest Wendy's franchises with 261 outlets throughout Kentucky, Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee and Florida. Mana Inc also operates 127 Chili's Grill and Bar restaurants, 23 Golden Caralle buffet and Grill restaurants, 19 Fizzoli's restaurants, 10 Perkins restaurants, 8 Mark's Speed Store restaurants, 5 Blase Pizza, Napa River Grill and the layover bar. Mana is the sixth Black owned company with the highest earnings in the US and they are still growing. 7. The Anderson DuBose Company The Anderson DuBose Company is a distributor for more than 270 McDonald's restaurants here in the United States as well as more than 75 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa. The company purchases about 575 products from a proof vendors for distribution to McDonald's franchise owners. Anderson DuBose is the seventh highest earning business to be owned by African Americans in the United States. Warren Anderson co-founded the Anderson DuBose Company with a college friend Steve DuBose in 1991. 8. Thompson Hospitality Thompson Hospitality Corporation is the largest minority-owned food and facilities management services corporation in the country and ranks number 8 on our list. Thompson Hospitality was founded in 1992 and he expanded the company's interest into the contract food service arena. Through this alliance, Thompson Hospitality currently serves more than 30 Fortune 100 companies, large colleges and universities, urban school districts and major hospital centers. Finally, Thompson Hospitality has developed a special tini-sh in providing food service to many of the nation's historically black colleges and universities. 9. Urban One Inc Urban One is a silver springs Maryland-based media conglomerate founded in 1980 by Cathy Hughes. Urban One is ranked number 9 in terms of annual revenue and earnings for African American owned companies. The company primarily operates media properties targeting a black audience, operating 55 radio stations. It is the largest African American owned broadcasting company in the United States, operating a variety of syndicated shows with hosts including Tom Joyner, Russ Parr, Ylanda Adams, Ricky Smiley, Bishop TV Jakes, DL Hewgley and the Reverend Al Sharpton. 10. Millennium Steel Service, LLC Serving automotive plants and parts makers, Millennium Steel Service offers steel processing, warehousing and logistics services. It also offers warehousing and supply chain management, including inventory management and inspection services, splitting services and IT system services. In 2001, founder Henry Jackson started Millennium Steel Service as a minority-owned joint venture with Toyota America. Millennium Steel Service is now a tier 1 raw material supplier to Toyota and rounds off our list at number 10 as the highest earning African American companies. We are the largest community of black excellence enthusiasts in the world. Secure your membership by subscribing to our channel today so that you will become the first to know when we release our next featured video.