Nineteen emerging Hispanic businesses will be featured at the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts’ ¡Festival Latino! this weekend.
The entrepreneurs from Columbia, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic were part of a six-month business incubator program called El Mercadito Raices. The program is organized by Catholic Social Services.
Participants in the workshop had one-on-one coaching on branding, marketing, packaging, presentation, food delivery and more.
The resulting businesses include seven restaurants, several cleaning services and landscaping. Some businesses will also sell products like candles and jewelry.
The full list of businesses are:
- Coffee Family, LLC
- Antojitos Tipicos, LLC
- Las Berracas Colombian Food, LLC
- T21 Scented Candles, LLC
- Rendon Landscaping, LLC
- J&J Creations Ohio
- Empty Space Cleaning Services, LLC
- Que como Jackson
- Pro Cleaning Commercial Services
- Rivero Commercial Cleaning, LLC
- Sweet Nirvana, LLC
- Los pasteles de Tita, LLC
- La patrona multiservicios, LLC
- Churros
- El Rinconcito Criollo, LLC
- La Casa Montessori, LLC
- Dream Cleaning 2024, LLC
- USA2, LLC
- Fight Solutions, LLC
Festival Latino takes place Saturday and Sunday in Genoa Park in downtown Columbus.
The family-friendly event includes food, children’s activities, music, fashion, art and dance.
