Barrier buster: America Tang and Peter Ng's plan to buy and grow a residential fencing firm by securing government contracts faced many hurdles.(Small Business)(Company Profile)

From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: September 27, 2004| Author: Wimberly, Rachel | Copyright information

As soon as America Tang and her partner, Peter Ng, closed on the purchase of Ace Fence Co., they started moving beyond the company's core residential fencing business.

The target: lucrative public works projects.

Both are immigrants (Tang was born in Peru, where her parents had settled after leaving China in advance of the Communist takeover, and Ng was born in China) and applied to the city of Los Angeles to be certified as both a woman- and minority-owned bu...

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