ITAGroup was founded in 1963 and for the last 25 years has been owned entirely by its employees.

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Founded in 1963 by Martin and Joan Stein, Regency Square Properties developed the first regional mall in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Founded in 1963 by the company's late patriarch, Sun Hung Kai developed into one of Hong Kong's most successful businesses, and when the elder Kwok died in 1990, he left the reins of Sun Hung Kai to his three sons, with the eldest, Walter Kwok, at the helm.

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Mary Kay Cosmetics was founded by Mary Kay Ash in 1963.

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Other examples of Americans who made fortunes abroad include Jim Thompson, who arrived in Asia in 1963 and founded Crown Worldwide, and William Connor, who took over the logistics business that his father began in Japan, later moving its headquarters to Hong Kong in 1985.

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The Hudson Review may lack the name recognition of the Paris Review (founded in 1953) or the New York Review of Books (1963).

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