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60% growth (2023)
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Benns Ethicoa
Malaysian cacao crashed 99.9%. This company pays farmers 3x market rates and won the country's first international chocolate awards.
Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾
Export Ready
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Resilient Brands
S$297 million
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Eu Yan Sang
Uncles sold this 111-year-old TCM company to developers. Heirs bought it back for S$21 million—then sold it for S$808 million.
Singapore 🇸🇬
$4.69M funded
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Applecrumby
Nine years between funding rounds—surviving on margins while competitors burned cash. Now holds the world's first TCF diaper patent.
Petaling Jaya 🇲🇾
Undisclosed
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Ghee Hiang
168 years old, seven years in court. Four families at war nearly destroyed Malaysia's oldest confectionery. Sesame oil—not pastries—now generates 70% of revenue.
George Town, Penang 🇲🇾
~USD 1-10M
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Pomhyanggi
Five crises in 25 years: famine, demolition, sanctions, pandemic, flooding. Still won a WIPO Gold Medal and produces 12 million units annually.
Sinuiju 🇰🇵
<$10M
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Unhasu
UN sanctions banned chemical imports. Unhasu pivoted to indigenous ingredients in weeks—6x production growth, 13x export surge by 2023.
Pyongyang 🇰🇵
$40-50M
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Dezan Shira & Associates
A misspelled surname, $500, and Deng's Southern Tour. Thirty-two years later: 40+ offices, $50M revenue, six crises survived by staying put.
Hong Kong 🇨🇳
$5-10M
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Dragonfly Therapeutic Retreat
Launched during SARS into Shanghai's missing middle. Academy-trained consistency made quality exportable—China's first service brand abroad.
Shanghai 🇨🇳
$1-9M
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Lhamour
Mongolia's first refill station—seven years before Western clean beauty. When consumers can't afford packaging, necessity becomes moat.
Ulaanbaatar 🇲🇳
$5-15M
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Walk of Shame
Provincial Ufa to Paris Fashion Week. Zero ad budget, Instagram-first. 150 stockists at peak—yet founder admits "endless doubts" despite success.
Moscow 🇷🇺
$60M+
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SUGAR Cosmetics
200K Fab Bag subscribers became SUGAR's secret weapon. Failed subscription transformed into intelligence moat L'Oréal can't replicate.
Mumbai, Maharashtra 🇮🇳
$60-80M
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Abrau-Durso
When 2022 sanctions shut Western markets, Abrau-Durso tripled China sales in 90 days—152 years of heritage opening doors startups can't.
Novorossiysk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Profiled Brands
$25-50M
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SoleRebels
$5,000 on grandmother's land. 100,000 jobs created. Ethiopia's first global fashion brand. Artisan production as competitive moat.
Addis Ababa 🇪🇹
$10-20M
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Vedernikov Winery
750,000 rubles for one bottle at auction—a Russian wine record. The grapes? Krasnostop Zolotovsky, grown nowhere else commercially.
Konstantinovsk, Rostov 🇷🇺
Derbent Cognac Factory
Soviet planners split Derbent's wine operations in 1960. The cognac side became a ₽2.7B spirits powerhouse producing 10M+ liters annually.
Derbent, Dagestan 🇷🇺
Kuban-Vino
Château Tamagne doesn't sound like a Soviet-era winery brand—and that's the point. Russia's largest producer runs a dual-brand playbook.
Temryuk, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Inkerman
55,000 square meters of chambers carved into Inkerman Mountain—ancient quarries turned Soviet wine cellars with zero refrigeration required.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Massandra
Prince Lev Golitsyn founded Massandra in 1894 to serve the tsars. Seven tunnels now preserve over a million bottles dating to the 18th century.
Yalta, Crimea 🇷🇺
$80-100M
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Fanagoria Estate Winery
Russia's largest winery ships 800,000 bottles to China yearly—scoring up to 97 Parker points from its own cooperage's Russian Oak.
Sennoy, Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Listed Brands
Villa Zvezda
The winemaker incubator: Co-founders later launched Usadba Sarkel (Forbes Top 100) and Vinabani (30+ autochthon varieties).
Malaya Martynovka, Rostov 🇷🇺
Domaine Lipko
A lawyer and Florida-trained golf professional turned winemaker on a Crimean Paleolithic archaeological site.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Dacha Serdyuka
Ten kilometers from where the Krasnostop Zolotovsky grape was born, Sergey Serdyuk makes Russia's only wine without sulfur dioxide.
Novocherkassk, Rostov 🇷🇺
Belbek
Ceramic artist planted vines in 2012. Three years later, Grand Prix as Russia's 'Best Red Wine.' Artisan craft from clay to vine.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Yaila
Crimean natural wine pioneer founded by Vitaliy Marinchuk. Russia's first still Pinot Meunier (2017), pioneered orange wines from Kokur (2018), first bourbon barrel aging. 30,000-50,000 bottles annually, 10-year cult following.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
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