BARE International, Inc. has again been selected as one of the Top 500 Women Owned Businesses in the U.S by DiversityBusiness.com. CEO Dale Bare has once again distinguished herself as one of the top entrepreneurs in the country, with BARE International ranking in the top 200 nationally, as well as in the top 5 in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
DiversityBusiness.com, the nation’s leading multicultural business website, announced the 2010 Div500, the 10th annual listing of the nation’s top 500 women-owned businesses. Ranging in revenue size from $20 million to over $1 billion, the companies listed on the Div500 represent the nation’s top companies and challenge the long-held notion that women-owned businesses are small or insignificant.
“Women-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 women-owned 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.
“The Div500 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.”
