Local Business Gains National Recognition
Local Woman Owned Business Named among Nation’s Top 500
MANCHESTER, NH – December 30, 2006 — In recognition of the economic power of multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading multicultural internet site, recently named Digital Prospectors Corp, an Information Technology recruiting and consulting firm, as one of the “Top 500 Woman Owned businesses in the United States (Div500)”.
The Div500 is the 7th annual listing of the Nation’s top 500 Woman Owned businesses. Ranging in revenue size from $5.3 million to over $300 million, the companies listed on the Div500 represent the Nation’s top Woman Owned earners and challenge the long-held notion that a Woman Owned business is small or insignificant. Div500 members are sought after by major corporations wishing to increase spending with Woman Owned businesses.
The Impact of Diversity Business
Affected by recent economic and demographic trends and changes, Fortune 1000 corporations throughout the country have recognized that buying products and services from diversity owned companies positively impacts their business. Small and Diversity-owned businesses contribute over $1.4 trillion in sales to the U.S. economy.
“Woman Owned Businesses and consumers are a growing force in the U.S. economy, and a force to be reckoned with,” said Kenton Clarke, CEO of Computer Consulting Associates International, the company that built DiversityBusiness.com. This is a whole business segment that can carry its own, that provides jobs, products and services, and generates wealth for their communities. These are the new leaders in American business.”
The Div500
The Div500 is a classification that represents the top 500 Woman Owned businesses in the U.S., in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services. Large organizational buyers throughout the country that do business with small businesses use the list. The Div500 is produced annually by DiversityBusiness.com, the nation’s leading multicultural B2B Internet portal that links large organizational buyers to multicultural product and service suppliers.
The winning companies will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com’s “7thh Annual Multicultural Business Conference”, taking place April 11 – 13, 2007 at the Mirage in Las Vegas, Nevada.
For the complete list of winning companies, please visit: www.diversitybusiness.com
About Digital Prospectors
Digital Prospectors Corp (DPC) is a New Hampshire-based IT recruiting and consulting services firm specializing in placing senior IT professionals in both contract and permanent positions at client nationwide. For nearly a decade, DPC has identified and captured the best IT talent for clients in a wide array of industries including health care, financial services, technology, education and government. For more information please visit www.dpcit.com.
About DiversityBusiness.com
Launched in 1999, with over 32,000 members DiversityBusiness.com is the largest organization of diversity-owned businesses throughout the United States that provide goods and services to Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and colleges and universities. Members use the sites technology to find and track new business opportunities. It also produces the country’s largest conference on diversity education and training for major corporations and small business. Its research on top businesses appears in Fortune, Forbes, Business Week and numerous magazines and media publications. The site has gained national recognition and has won numerous awards for its content and design. DiversityBusiness.com is produced by Computer Consulting Associates International Inc. (CCAii.com) of Southport, CT. CCA was founded in 1980 by CEO Kenton Clarke.
For additional information, please contact:
Jessica Catino
Digital Prospectors
(603) 627-5020
jcatino@dpcit.com