{"id":10250,"date":"2021-08-30T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/?p=10250"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:23:06","slug":"arora-ranks-1-in-the-philadelphia-business-journals-2021-list-of-minority-owned-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/arora-ranks-1-in-the-philadelphia-business-journals-2021-list-of-minority-owned-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Arora Ranked #1 in the Philadelphia Business Journal&#8217;s 2021 List of Minority Owned Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arora is pleased to be ranked #1 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/philadelphia\/subscriber-only\/2021\/08\/27\/minority-owned-businesses-in-the.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Philadelphia Business Journal&#8217;s<\/em> Minority-owned Businesses list<\/a> for 2021! This is Arora&#8217;s 7th consecutive appearance on this list of Ethnic Minority-owned Businesses in Greater Philadelphia ranked by their previous year&#8217;s revenue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/company\/why-arora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Founded in 1986<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/company\/leadership\/manohar-mike-l-arora-ms-pe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manohar (Mike) Arora<\/a>, MS, PE, shortly after immigrating to the United States, Arora Engineers, Inc. initially only specialized in electrical engineering, and its first office was in the family\u2019s basement. As the business grew, additional services were added including mechanical, plumbing, fire alarm and suppression, and security\/special systems engineering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/company\/leadership\/manik-arora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manik Arora<\/a>, PE, who was named one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/manik-k-arora-featured-in-the-philadelphia-business-journals-2021-influencers-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top 25 Minority Business Leaders<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/philadelphia\/digital-edition?issue_id=16223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Philadelphia Business Journal\u2019s<\/em> <em>2021 Influencers Collection <\/em><\/a>earlier this year<em>, <\/em>became President &amp; CEO in 2006. Under his leadership the company has expanded to 14 offices across the United States, over 200 employees, and three subsidiary companies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/expertise\/edi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Data, Inc. (EDI)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/expertise\/arora-technology-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arora Technology Group, LLC\u00ae<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aroraengineers.com\/expertise\/arora-systems-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arora Systems Group, LLC\u00ae<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arora is pleased to be ranked #1 on the Philadelphia Business Journal&#8217;s Minority-owned Businesses list for 2021! This is Arora&#8217;s 7th consecutive appearance on this list of Ethnic Minority-owned Businesses in Greater Philadelphia ranked by their previous year&#8217;s revenue. Founded in 1986 by Manohar (Mike) Arora, MS, PE, shortly after immigrating to the United States, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-10250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-awards"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Arora Ranked #1 in the Philadelphia Business Journal&#039;s 2021 List of Minority Owned Businesses - Arora Engineers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Arora Ranked #1 in the Philadelphia Business Journal&#039;s 2021 List of Minority Owned Businesses \u2013 Arora is pleased to be ranked #1 on the Philadelphia Business Journal&#039;s Minority-owned Businesses list for 2021! 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