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Bare International
Dale Bare, CEO of Bare International (BARE) is proud to announce that for the third year in a row, they have been named one of the top diversity-owned businesses in the United States. BAI continues to strive for excellence and growth as a leader in the Mystery Customer Satisfaction Measurement program for Fortune 1000 companies globally with offices located in the United States, China, India, Brazil and Belgium.
Top 500 Diversity Owned Businesses in the United States Announced
SOUTHPORT, CT, December 07, 2006/ DiversityBusiness.com -- DiversityBusiness.com, the nation’s’ leading multicultural business website, today announced the Div500, the 7th annual listing of the nation’s top 500 diversity-owned businesses. Ranging in revenue size from $20 million to over $2 billion, the companies listed on the Div500 represent the nation’s top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that diversity-owned businesses are small or insignificant.
“Diversity-owned businesses contribute over $1.4 trillion in sales to the U.S. economy,” said Kenton Clarke, CEO of Computer Consulting Associates International, the company that built DiversityBusiness.com. “It is no longer just “the right thing” to do business with diversity suppliers. Because of recent economic and demographic trends and changes, major corporations are realizing that having a diverse supplier base positively impacts their business revenue from this sector of buyers”.
The Div500 The Div500 is a classification that represents the Top 500 diversity-owned (women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native American and other minority groups) businesses in the U.S., in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services. Major corporations, government agencies and college/universities throughout the country that do business with multicultural and women-owned 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 businesses.
About DiversityBusiness.com Launched in 1999, DiversityBusiness.com with over 32,000 members 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.
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