2005 Business Awards: Charlie Ton

From: The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report | Date: March 29, 2005| Author: Verma, Mukul | Copyright information

Quy "Charlie" Ton has been occupied for more than a year with studying coffee, tinkering with fish tanks, learning how to roast coffee beansall to start Charlie's Coffees.

Now he's back at the first big business fie created while he awaits the results of an experiment: Will Charlie's Coffees, like his Regal Nails salons, make money inside Wal-Mart stores and lead to another victory for the Vietnamese immigrant?

Until that's clear, he says, he's "back to strengthen the nail salon...

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