Milena Pagan is a self-proclaimed “corporate-retail-strategist-turned-bagel-maker.” Pagan was born in Puerto Rico and moved to Massachusetts to get her degree at MIT. Milena Pagan graduated from MIT with a degree in chemical engineering, followed by a job with CVS Health as an Omnichannel Strategist, but after several years she needed to share her passion for homemade bagels after finding it hard to get New York style bagels that she really enjoyed. Pagan experimented for several months to create the perfect recipe, then quit her job at CVS and launched Rebelle Artisan Bagels.
Milena Pagan is an incredibly determined person. She identified a problem, and found a way to profit and satisfy that need. Pagan held pop-up shops and promoted her bagels to everyone she could. She has found a way to put a twist on handmade, New York style bagels that differentiates herself from the rest of bagel makers in Providence, Rhode Island. Her success with a Kickstarter campaign granted Rebelle Bagels to pursue a storefront in Providence and they were able to open their doors in the summer of 2017.
Milena Pagan earned a Entrepreneur of the Year Award New England recently and she deserved it. She has done an amazing job pursing a goal and has achieved great success. Melina has shown her perseverance and resilience in times of challenge. During COVID she and Rebelle had to be incredibly flexible in order to continue pr0viding customers with the value and quality they were accustomed to.
Customers rave about the fun and interesting flavors that Rebelle Bagels creates on a daily basis. These unexpected flavors are not limited to just bagels, they extend to their very own line of cream cheese, lox, and lunch items.
Located in Providence, Rhode Island, Rebelle Bagels hand make their bagels, cream cheese and lox daily. They experiment with flavors and offer lots of vegan options.
Although I’m not a huge baker, I appreciate ventures like this and would LOVE to visit. From the sounds of it, Pagan seems to be a go-getter and didn’t stop at anything to stop pursuing her passion – that’s awesome.
Pagan looks like someone with a really good trait in all entrepreneurs. The ability to go out and gets things I truley think can help any single person start something no matter the walk of life. You see that alot here in this write up
This was a really good article to read. You really showed a lot of the traits that pagan has as an entrepreneur.
This is a good example of entrepreneurship. Also impressive that she was able to differentiate her bagels from the rest since to a lot of people a bagel is a bagel and it’s more about the convenience and atmosphere than the bagel itself.
Well written post! This is a great example in turning a business idea from a concept that is known but can be revamped. The mentality of this entrepreneur led her to a success of her own bagel company which is very unique!