Global Data Systems, Inc. Named to Louisiana's Top Business List for 2009
Lafayette, Louisiana
February 9, 2009.
In recognition of the economic power of privately held businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations' leading business-to-business internet site, recently named Global Data Systems, Inc. as one of the top businesses in the United States.
This is the 9th annual listing of the Louisiana top businesses by DiversityBusiness.com. Ranging in revenue size from five Million to over 100 Million the companies listed on the Top Business Lists represent the Nation's top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a privately held business is small or insignificant. Winners are sought after by major corporations wishing to increase spending with small businesses.
"Entrepreneurs 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 List
This List is a classification that represents the top small 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, small and women-owned businesses use the list. The List 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 "9th Annual Multicultural Business Conference", taking place April 29 - May 1, 2009 at the Disney's Contemporary Resort in Orlando, Florida.
For the complete list of winning companies, please visit DiversityBusiness.com.
About Global Data Systems, Inc.
Established in 1987, Louisiana-based Global Data Systems is a leading provider of networking solutions, with a comprehensive suite of IP technologies and total lifecycle support. GDS offers the foundation for delivering critical services and applications with a suite of solutions that includes MPLS and IP-based VPNs, converged voice, physical and logical security, wireless infrastructures and 24x7x365 support and maintenance. GDS designs, builds and manages complete network solutions to meet our clients' needs in the most competitive ways possible. We enhance the way our clients do business by customizing solutions which fully integrate into existing networks.
About DiversityBusiness.com
Launched in 1999, DiversityBusiness, with over 46,000 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. DiversityBusiness provides research and data collection services for diversity including the "Top 50 Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities", "Top 500 Diversity Owned Companies in America", and others. Its research has been recognized and published by Forbes Magazine, Business Week and thousands of other print and internet publications. The site has gained national recognition and has won numerous awards for its content and design. It is a leading provider of Supplier Diversity management tools and has the most widely distributed Diversity magazine in the United States. DiversityBusiness.com is produced by Computer Consulting Associates International Inc. (CCAii.com) of Southport, CT. Founded in 1980.