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Facts on women-owned businesses
National Women's Business Council
For facts, issues and trends on women business owners, including Hispanic women, women of color, Native American women, Asian women visit www.nwbc.gov
Fact Sheets:
8/2004 Key facts about women business owners and their enterprises
1/2004 African American Women and Entrepreneurship
4/2003 Key Facts About Asian American Women Business Owners
9/2004 Hispanic Women and Entrepreneurship
11/2003 Native American/Alaska Native Women and Entrepreneurship
Issues in Brief
8/2004 Trends in Minority Women-Owned Employer Establishments: 1997 2000
8/2004 Trends in African American Women-Owned Employer Establishments: 1997 2000
8/2004 Trends in Asian American Women-Owned Employer Establishments: 1997 2000
8/2004 Trends in Latina-Owned Employer Establishments: 1997 2000
8/2004 Trends in Native American Women-Owned Employer Establishments: 1997 2000
4/2004 Trends in SBA-Backed Financing to Women-Owned Businesses, FY1998 to FY2003
3/2004 The Growth of Women in "Non- Traditional" Industries
1/2004 Trends in Women-Owned Employer Establishments: 1997 - 2000
10/2003 State Economic Networks for Women Business Owners ; Resource Guide
10/2003 Women's Entrepreneurship Around the Globe: An Analysis From the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 1999 to 2002
8/2003 Federal Contracting with Women-Owned Businesses, FY1997 - FY2002 ;
Additional Tables
2/2003 Legislative Priorities Among Key Women's and Small Business Organizations
2/2003 Roundtable Discussion on Health Insurance Issues
The National Women's Business Council is a bi-partisan Federal advisory council created to serve as an independent source of advice and policy recommendations to the President, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration on economic issues of importance to women business owners. The Council's mission is to promote bold initiatives, policies and programs designed to support women's business enterprises at all stages of development in the public and private sector, from start-up to success to significance.
For more information about the Council or publications, please contact:
Julie R. Weeks, Executive Director, National Women's Business Council, 409 Third Street, SW, Suite 210, Washington, DC 20024, phone:1-202-205-6828, fax:1-202-205-6825, e-mail: julie.weeks@sba.gov web site: www.nwbc.gov
Top Diversity Owned Businesses in the United States Announced
Div100 Winners For State's Announced
DiversityBusiness.com, the nation's leading multicultural B2B online portal, today announced the Div100, the 5th annual listing of the nation's top diversity-owned businesses. Ranging in revenue size from $20 million to over $1 billion, the companies listed on the Div100 represent the nation's top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that diversity-owned businesses are small or insignificant.
At the top of 2004's Div100 are Software House International, Inc., headquartered in Somerset, NJ, with $2.1 billion in 2003 revenues, Burt Automotive, based in Centennial, CO, with 1.7 billion in 2003 revenues, Omega World Travel, based in Fairfax, VA, with $1 billion in 2003 revenues, and World Wide Technology, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, with $1.1 billion in 2003 revenues. These four businesses are Asian Pacific American-, Hispanic-, Woman- and African American-owned, respectively. The top companies will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com's 5th Annual Multicultural Business Conference, taking place March 30 - April 1, 2005 at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
"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 list positively impacts their business."
The Div100
The Div100 is a classification that represents the top 100 diversity-owned (women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Indian and other minority groups) businesses in each of 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.
"The Div100 companies are the heroes of diversity-owned business in America," said Kenton Clarke. These are the people that have conquered the hurdles and made the sacrifices, building and strengthening their communities, providing jobs and helping to keep the fabric of the U.S. economy together."
For the complete list of winning companies and a list of the top businesses in your State, please visit:
www.DiversityBusiness.com
About DiversityBusiness.com
Launched in 1999, DiversityBusiness.com with over 26,000 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. The site has gained national recognition and has won numerous awards for its content and design. It is a membership-based exchange platform that facilitates contacts and communication, streamlines business processes and provides vital business news and information. DiversityBusiness.com is produced by Computer Consulting Associates International Inc. (CCAii.com) of Southport, CT. Founded in 1980 by CEO Kenton Clarke; CCAii is the one of the country's most successful African-American owned computer-consulting and diversity specialist firms.
SBA Commitment to Women Bears Significant Results
As part of the U.S. Small Business Administration's record-breaking performance in FY 2004, the agency and its lending partners provided more loans to women-owned businesses than ever before. In the past year SBA backed almost 18,000 loans to women-owned businesses under its two primary loan programs, amounting to $2.5 billion, more than double the number of loans to women as recently as FY 2001.
"Our deputy administrator, Melanie Sabelhaus, is one of the nation's strongest advocates for women entrepreneurs," stated Hector Barretto, SBA Administrator.
Aside from the record-setting loan performance, Barreto noted that women-owned small businesses also received $1.5 billion more in federal contracts in FY 2003, the most recent year for which data is available. The total value of federal contracts to women-owned businesses rose from $6.8 billion to $8.3 billion, a total of 2.98% of all federal prime contract dollars. From FY 2000 to FY 2003, prime contract dollars increased by 81%, or more than $3.7 billion.
In the last two years the SBA has also embarked on the highly successful Business Matchmaking program to create more contracting opportunities for small businesses. Since its inception, the Business Matchmaking program has created approximately 22,000 one-on-one appointments between small business owners and buyers from federal and local governments as well as buyers from the private sector. Of those businesses that received contracts, 50% have been women-owned businesses. Women-owned businesses have also received 65% of the contracting dollars.
For more information about all of the SBA's programs for small businesses, visit the SBA's extensive Web site at www.sba.gov in English, or www.negocios.gov in Spanish
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