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By: REDACCIĂN/Diario Las AmĂ©ricas
From New York to Miami, six Latina women have recently been recognized by Vogue magazine for their impact on contemporary culture in the United States. It's not just about visibility or style, but about leadership with roots, a voice of their own, and a narrative that transforms industries from within.
This recognition converges in the âPower and Purposeâ program, led by Drisset Bethancourt, a platform created to amplify inspiring women's stories based on the consistency between what they live and what they project. Women from the worlds of fashion, entertainment, communication, entrepreneurship, and digital education come together here not to compete, but to demonstrate that true power is exercised when personal stories become collective messages.
Publish date: December 17, 2025
By: CNCC
Each of the six protagonists embodies a different form of leadership, but they all share a common root: transforming their personal stories into collective impact.
Angela Maria Romero represents the power of perseverance. She arrived in Miami without a support network and today leads two cosmetics distribution companies with a presence on five continents. Her work has paved the way for economic independence for thousands of women who, like her, understood that discipline and faith can become a form of freedom.
Publish date: December 17, 2025
By: Mandy Fridmann | LasTopWews
The story of Ăngela MarĂa Romero might sound familiar in the first part, when she was fired from a great job and that blow seemed to crush her.
But without a doubt, the second part is truly inspiring: the story of a Latina woman who got back up, kept her heart intact, and used her brain to create a cosmetics empire, even using the products of the person who fired her and stole her dream.
Based in Miami, she created her own skincare brand, Totemica, and a cosmetics extension with Ana Patricia GĂĄmez, whom she considers an angel in her life.
LOCAL STORIES
I am Colombian, I arrived in the USA in 1997. In the first years, I did work such as cleaning houses, babysitting, bartending, etc. In 2010 I was fired from my sales job at a liquidation company. A month later I opened my own company in the same field, I started from scratch with very little money
Publish date: APRIL 4, 2024
By: JOSEPH A. MANN JR.
Special to the Miami Herald
The company and its products: CentralCloseout.com is an online wholesale business that buys large volumes of cosmetics and hair and skin products from retail store closeouts, liquidations and overstocked stores and sells them to other wholesalers in the U.S. and overseas, particularly in Central and South America. It also buys products directly from manufacturers and distributors
Publish date: January 24, 2021
By: JOSEPH A. MANN JR.
Inc. 5000
Supplies inventory from store closeouts, liquidation, overstocks and customer returns from all United States-based department stores.
By: ETELKA LEHOCZKY
Inc. 5000
Angela Romero came to the U.S. from Cali, Colombia, in 1997. She got her start selling clothing out of a suitcase to fellow students in her business administration classes. Today, she runs CentralCloseout.com, a wholesale inventory supplier, with 12 employees, a 17,000-square-foot warehouse and an international clientele.
Publish date: December 2015
By: ELAINE GODFREY
Inc. 5000
CEO: Angela Romero
Inc. 5000 Rank: 177
2014 Revenue: $4.2 million
3-Year Growth Rate: 2,357 percent
By: KERRY CLOSE
Inc. 5000
Some of the top Latino founders on the Inc. 5000 chimed in on how overcoming language barriers and prejudice has helped them become better business owners. Angela Romero, CEO of Hollywood, Florida-based merchandise liquidator CentralCloseout.com, credits much of her business savvy to skills she picked up in her home country. She learned how to negotiate and not take no for an answer while fending for herself as a single woman in Colombia before moving to the U.S. in 1997. She says that helped her immensely after she took the helm at her own business in South Florida in 2010.
By: Miami Herald
With its access to international sea and airports, South Florida has quietly become a launching pad for such companies. Among them is Hollywood-based CentralCloseouts.com, which sells small quantities of health and beauty products to retailers overseas that canât afford to buy hundreds of items. And at Miamiâs Gomez Ossa International, which resells clothing in Central and South America, profits have doubled for several years in a row, company buyer Irene Gomez said.
By: Keith Liles
Killer Startups
Today Iâve been introduced to Central Closeout merchandise liquidators. CentralCloseout.com is a wholesale supplier of store closeouts, liquidations, overstocks, and customer returns. Basically, they source the merchandise that others companies have too much of, want to move to make space for new inventory, or can no longer use. Then they pass along both savings and opportunities to make money thanks to having scooped up great deals in large quantities.
Publish date: August 2014
