Local Business Named and Ranked 71 among Top 100 Small Business List in Virginia
Newport News, VA, 09 Jan 08 In recognition of the economic power of multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading multicultural internet site, recently named UAV Communications, Inc. as one of the “ Top Small businesses in the state of Virginia (Div100)”.
The Div100 is the 8th annual listing of the Virginia’s top 100 small businesses. The companies listed on the Div100 represent the Nation’s top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a small business is small or insignificant. Div100 members are sought after by major corporations wishing to increase spending with small and diversity owned companies.
The Impact of Small Business
“Small 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.”
Affected by recent economic and demographic trends and changes, Fortune 1000 corporations throughout the country have recognized that buying products and services from small and diversity owned companies positively impacts their business. Small businesses contribute over $1.4 trillion in sales to the U.S. economy.
Carmen Castillo, President of Superior Design International, Inc., Florida commented “These groups of companies represent the organizational spirit that drives our economy and even more. It offers insights into a vastness of cultures and an exchange of ideas that are so valuable in helping me to understand how to reach the needs of today's consumers”.
The Div100
The Div100 is a classification that represents the top 100 small businesses in the state of Virginia, in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services. Large organizational buyers throughout the country that do business with multicultural and women-owned businesses use the list. The Div100 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.
UAV Communications, Inc. will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com’s “8th Annual Multicultural Business Conference”, taking place April 23 - 25, 2008 at Disney’s BoardWalk Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Bob Fitzgerald, President of UAV Communications, Inc., commented “This award is a tremendous honor to me personally. It serves as a testament to the success possible when a team of talented individuals from diverse backgrounds come together for a common goal. We are all extremely excited and humbled by this recognition.”
About UAV Communications, Inc.
UAV Communications, Inc. is an SBA-certified 8(a), veteran-owned company specializing in communications, networking, and video distribution technology services. UAV Communications, Inc. was created as a sub-chapter S corporation based in Virginia. Besides operating the main corporate office out of Newport News, VA, UAV Comm. provides on-site support to customers in Las Vegas, NV, Tucson, AZ, Fargo, ND, Mary Esther, FL, and Riverside, CA. Our company offers technical advisory and staffing assistance to customers seeking reliable and secure communications, networking, and video technology services. Our forte is support of mission-critical UAV systems, first responder communications networks, video surveillance, and intelligence systems. Our focus is on consistent, reliable, real-time delivery of motion video, voice, metadata, still imagery, radar, and other sensor data for end-to-end solutions through any communications media available or desired. UAV Comm. offers full spectrum support from systems design and integration through hands-on network and communications systems operations and management to technical engineering advice and assistance. Our customer base includes UAV operators, unmanned system developers, first responders, all echelons of military command, and the intelligence community. Since receiving its first contract in 2004, UAV Comm. revenue has grown by 2800% and now employs over 50 people.
About DiversityBusiness.com
Launched in 1999, with over 35,000 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.
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