With more than 3.3 billion in revenues, St. Louis-based World Wide Technology, Inc. (David L. Steward, founder and chairman) topped Black Enterprise‘s 2011 list of the 100 most profitable black-owned business in the “Industrial/Service” sector. The firm far outpaced the leaders in the other sectors ranked by the magazine, while also ranking fifth in growth, with more than a 51 percent increase in revenues from 2009.
St. Louis-based Roberts Brothers Properties ranked 40th among Industrial/Service companies, with $89.5 million in revenues. The firm’s principals, Michael V. Roberts and Steven C. Roberts, are featured in the June 2011 edition of Black Enterprise. Steven C. Roberts is quoted: “We go into urban areas because everyone else has tended to abandon them to a degree.”
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