Special delivery: company helps immigrants care for relatives back home by providing U.S. outlet for buying appliances that can be received across border. (Small Business).(Brief Article)

From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: October 7, 2002| Author: Belgum, Deborah | Copyright information

EDUARDO Bermudez always set aside a small amount of money to send his mother in Mexico City. Though he hoped she would use it for the big household appliances she badly needed, the money was always spent on other necessities.

Eventually, Bermudez came up with an idea to purchase those big-ticket items without having his mother buy them herself.

Nearly three years ago he created MexiCompras (compras in Spanish means "you buy") in which shoppers in the United St...

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