CARIBBEAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
An Untapped Marketing Opportunity


  • “Even compared with other immigrant groups, Caribbean Americans enjoy some of the highest household incomes in the city”. Forbes, February 12, 1996

  • “There are over half a million (Caribbean Americans) in the New York area alone, and despite their recent arrival, they make substantially more money than American blacks. ………., in fact, West Indians fare about as well as Chinese and Korean immigrants.” The New Yorker, April 29, 1996

  • “Just under half of West Indians households made between $27,000 and $75,000. The comparable figure for white households was 45 percent and for non-immigrant black households was 39 percent.” The Economist, May 13, 1996

  • “The Caribbeanization” of New York is becoming a driving force in the economic, cultural, social and political like of the city”. The New York Times, June 3, 1988

 
 
 
 
 
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