For entrepreneur Albert Fuller, success comes in cardboard boxes. As the CEO of Integrated Packaging Corp. in New Brunswick, N.J., he should know. His company is one of the largest and most profitable African American-owned manufacturing businesses in the New York metro area.

Models from European, Asian and American carmakers comprise the lineup of specials this fall. Here’s a preview of our 2010 choices.

On the surface, the Association of  a New Generation of Leaders for Africa, or AngelAfrica, can’t hold a candle to the Corporate Council on Africa, Washington, D.C.’s longtime power broker of investment and commerce between the United States and Africa. Yet the future of Africa lies more in the hands of AngelAfrica than in the dealings of the CCA.

Today, all adults need to see themselves as job applicants, whether they currently have jobs or not. Unemployment respects no one in this tough economy. You could be an applicant as soon as tomorrow, so it is important that you realize that the rules have changed.

Poor nations offer interesting opportunities for investors seeking tomorrow’s emerging markets. Several exchange-traded fund managers are already investing in Africa and the Caribbean, taking advantage of opportunities in frontier markets that are showing promise.

I am one of 300-plus million consumers in the United States. I consume, therefore I spend, and I spend in dollars. How much and how frequently I spend determine in large measure the health of the U.S. economy. Consumer spending fuels a whopping 70 percent of this country’s economy.

A lot of people — especially those who like to cook — are looking to get into the catering business these days. Here are some tips for getting off on the right foot:

In his welcome and inspiring maiden statement to the General Assembly, President Barack Obama correctly identified the challenges to our multilateral unity as “rooted in a discontent with the status quo.” We wholeheartedly endorse this assessment.

If you have money in an Individual Retirement Account, or an IRA rollover account, you’ll be faced with a big financial decision next year. Should you convert your current IRA, on which you’ll pay taxes when you withdraw the money, into a tax-free Roth IRA?

The heads of six federal agencies are on the second half of an eight-city blitz to sell local businesses on how they can successfully leverage government export assistance to expand sales of U.S. goods and services in foreign markets and increase their bottom lines.

Frugality appears to be the order of the day, but African-Americans and Hispanics are making the biggest adjustments to spending, saving and work habits than any other group as a result of the economic recession, according to a national survey conducted for Citigroup Inc.

When auto industry experts told The Network Journal in last year’s report on the industry that businesses that had the foresight to prepare for the impending economic storm stood a better chance of weathering it, their comment was as applicable to the Big Three automakers as it was to small enterprises.

The holiday season of 2009 may be a frugal one for many of us, given the slow economy, but that doesn’t mean you need to let your cravings for the latest high-tech gadgets go unsatisfied. Fortunately, there are many new but affordable gadgets that can help you improve your business or relax a little better when you finally reach that well-deserved weekend.

A secret destination, Uruguay has a World Heritage site, a plethora of beaches, thermal spas, working guest ranches, friendly people and a tranquil ambiance that is hard to find in today’s frantic world.

At a time when musicality and training among vocalists and musicians may not be as celebrated as in the past, when music education and arts-appreciation programs in schools have been annihilated, one may well wonder how jazz will survive in the 21st century.

Results of a pioneering study may provide new clues to treating and preventing hypertension in African-Americans. Hypertension, or chronic high blood pressure, underlies an array of life-threatening conditions, including heart disease, stroke and kidney disease.