C&L Metal Sales Receives 2008 Best of Portland Award
U.S. Local Business Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement
WASHINGTON D.C., June 11, 2008 -- C&L Metal Sales has been selected for the 2008 Best of Portland Award in the Steel Distributors & Warehouses category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).
The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2008 USLBA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties.
About U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA)
U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USLBA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.
The USLBA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.
Local Business Gains National Recognition Local Woman Owned Business Named among Oregon’s Top 100
Portland, Oregon, 2006 In recognition of the economic power of multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading multicultural internet site, recently named C & L Metal Sales as one of the “Top 100 Woman Owned businesses in the state of Oregon (Div100)”.
The Div100 is the 7th annual listing of the Oregon’s top 100 Woman Owned businesses. Ranging in revenue size from 1,000,000 to over 8,200,000, the companies listed on the Div100 represent the state’s top Woman Owned earners and challenge the long-held notion that a Woman Owned business is small or insignificant. Div100 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 Div100
The Div100 is a classification that represents the top 100 Woman Owned businesses in Oregon, in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services. Large organizational buyers throughout the country that do business with 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.
The winning companies will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com’s “7th Annual Multicultural Business Conference”, taking place April 11-13, 2007 at the Mirage in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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
On behalf of American Registry, congratulations Cindy on being recognized by DiversityBusiness.com as one of the Top Woman Owned Businesses In Oregon for 2006!
