Salute to American Success

With OPPOS, serial entrepreneur Tom Ervin is making mix-and-match leggings for girls, which were inspired by his granddaughter.

Today’s Salute to American Success goes to Harvey Ricard, owner of the Connecticut Stage Company -- a costume and theatre production shop in business for more than 25 years.

Today’s American Success goes to JoAnn Tilghman, founder and president of Granny Jo Products -- a small business that adds a little bling to senior citizens’ golden years.

Today's Salute to American Success goes to Dave Katz, owner of Meriden, Conn.-based Katz Gloves. Katz breaks in baseball gloves for a living. That’s right – breaks in baseball gloves – for a living.

Today’s American Success Salute goes to Tanisha Akinloye, the founder and CEO of Trumbull, Conn.-based Empowering Through Beauty – a nonprofit that provides free makeovers and beauty services to help homeless, battered, and low-income women know their inner and outer beauty.

Today’s Salute to American Success goes to a founder of a growing roofing business that’s enjoying being on top!

Today’s American Success Salute goes to an entrepreneurial teen -- a millennial -- who doesn’t plan on coasting through life.

Today’s Salute to American Success goes to a mom who created an organic-baby product business – called Zoë b Organic -- that’s making green from being green.

Today’s Salute to American Success goes to a man who pulled himself out of poverty to create a multi-million-dollar hair-care products empire, and has proven he can more than cut it in the business world. 

Founded in 1965 by Joe Gold in Venice, California, Gold's Gym has been popular with bodybuilding legends and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

Huddle House, a restaurant chain found mainly in the Southern United States, features many 24-hour diner-type restaurants, specializing in Southern-style dishes.

Kona Ice president and founder Tony Lamb's "A-ha” moment came after his family had a “bad experience” with an ice cream truck, which prompted him to create his tropical-themed, mobile shaved ice franchise

In this Salute to American Success, we’re taking a look at 16-year-old entrepreneur Brandon Iverson, who launched his first company at the age of 10.

A sports beverage business comes to play, blending coconut water with B-vitamins to create a ‘peak-performance’ drink.

In this Salute to American Success, we’re taking a look at Jennifer Adams Worldwide and CEO Jennifer Adams.

Disaster struck when Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, leaving Craig Ceccanti jobless and looking for work. A few years later, he would co-found a paint-and-sip business that has now grown to 100 locations.

H.U.M.A.N. Healthy Vending founder and CEO Sean Kelly faced struggles early on, but turned the company around, and was included in Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list in 2013.

Daily Greens, headquartered in Austin, Texas, creates and sells healthy, cold-pressed “green juices" to a variety of grocery stores across the United States.

Starting off never knowing she’d end up in the cupcake business, we take a look at how Gigi Butler today is enjoying the “sweet” smell of success.

One woman’s journey to becoming a successful business owner.