December 2006
Local Hispanic, Woman-owned Business Named among Nation's Top 100

ATLANTA, December 8, 2006 – In recognition of the economic power of multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading multicultural Internet site, recently named PS Energy Group, Inc. #1 on the “Top 100 Hispanic American owned businesses in the United States (Div100)” and #33 on the “Top 100 Diversity-owned businesses in the United States (Div100).”

The Div100 is the 7th annual listing of the nation’s top diversity-owned businesses. Ranging in revenue size from $59 million to $2.6 billion, the companies listed on the Div100 represent the nation’s top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a diversity-owned business is small or insignificant. 
 

Div100 members are sought after by major corporations wishing to increase spending with diversity-owned companies.

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. Diversity-owned businesses contribute over $1.4 trillion in sales to the U.S. economy.

“Diversity 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 Div 100 

The Div100 is a classification that represents the top 100 diversity-owned businesses in the U.S., 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.

The winning companies will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com’s “7th h Annual Multicultural Business Conference , ” taking place April 11 - 13, 2007 at the Mirage in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For the complete list of winning companies, please visit: www.diversitybusiness.com

About PS Energy Group, Inc.

Founded in 1985, PS Energy Group, Inc. ( www.psenergy.com ) is a privately-owned, Atlanta-based company that offers business, industry and government a full range of energy and transportation solutions. The company is among the nation's top 50 diversity-owned businesses and helps its customers meet their energy needs by providing natural gas, transportation fuels, emergency fueling and fleet management services, including etrac TM, a Global Positioning System product used for asset monitoring and vehicle tracking. PS Energy supplied natural gas to Georgia industries a decade before deregulation allowed the company to become a natural gas provider for Georgia homes and businesses in 1998 through its division, GasKey ( www.gaskey.com ). 

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 Consulting Associates International Inc. (CCAii.com) of Southport, CT. CCA was founded in 1980 by CEO Kenton Clarke.

Contact: Phyllis Weiss
Public Relations for PS Energy Group, Inc.
(404) 873-6095
pgweiss1@msn.com