Saturday 2 November 2013

Guillermo Perales and Sun Holdings: The Largest Minority Employer in the US

Guillermo Perales of Irving, Texas, is the founder and CEO of Sun Holdings, which was established in 1997. In case you are not aware, Sun Holdings and its leader Guillermo Perales are in the restaurant business. Starting with only one franchise in 1997, the savvy and smart entrepreneur Guillermo Perales took Sun Holdings to the top in the fifteen years it has been in existence. In fact, Dallas Business Journal named Sun Holdings number one of the Top 25 North Texas Minority-Owned Businesses at the beginning of 2013 - Guillermo Perales knows what he is doing!

Guillermo Perales’s Sun Holdings supports the successful establishment, management, and services offered by a wide range of family-style and fast food restaurants in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, and has done so with professionalism, grace, and by employing the largest amount of minority workers in the area. The franchises that make up Sun Holdings, then, not only indicate that success occurs through growth and professionalism, but has also shown that a diverse workforce is part of the future of the entrepreneurial spirit. Guillermo Perales has leadership to spare - he has ranked as the largest Golden Corral and Cici’s Franchisee and the 4th largest Burger King Franchisee in the country! Additionally, he has recently acquired 52 Arby's restaurants.

Through his strengths in leadership, strategic business development, and fostering annual growth, Guillermo Perales has guided Sun Holdings through the most significant job growth of any company for the past five years, creating one of the largest Hispanic owned companies in the nation. Guillermo Perales, however, would be the first to recognize that none of this success was possible without the support of dedicated employees.

Amongst the almost 400 franchises that make up Sun Holdings, Guillermo Perales recognizes that employees are what create success, and that—especially as it pertains to restaurant operations—a smile, hard work, and loving what you do are always what makes for success.