Press Release

The Integrity Group named to Top 500 Women-Owned Business List

Houston, March 2008 – In recognition of the economic power of multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nation’s leading multicultural Internet website, recently named The Integrity Group as one of the “Top Women-Owned Businesses in the United States (Div500).”

The Div500 is the 8th annual listing of the Nation’s top 500 women-owned businesses. The businesses listed on the Div500 represent the nation’s top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a women-owned business is small or insignificant. Major corporations that want to increase spending with women-owned businesses seek out Div500 members.

The Integrity Group will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com’s “8th Annual Multicultural Business Conference,” taking place April 23–25, 2008 at Walt Disney World Resort’s BoardWalk in Orlando, Florida.

DiversityBusiness.com also recognizes The Integrity Group for being named among “Top Small Businesses in Texas (Div100),” “Top Diversity Owned Businesses in Texas (Div100),” and “Top Women Owned Business in Texas (Div100).” For the complete list of winning companies, visit www.diversitybusiness.com.

“I’m thrilled and honored to receive this recognition,” said Deborah Clifton, The Integrity Group CEO. “We are dedicated to diversity at Integrity. Our wonderful culture and the quality of the services we provide are due in large part to the high level of creativity that exists in our diverse corporate environment.”

About The Integrity Group

Since 1994, The Integrity Group has provided global solutions to meet the documentation, training, and marketing communication needs of customers in a variety of markets, including technology, manufacturing, oil and gas, government, and higher education. Integrity helps clients maximize their customers’ experiences and accelerate employee performance.

“The Integrity approach gives customers the ability to reduce infrastructure costs, meet time-to-market schedules, and centralize processes. In other words, by doing what we do best, we let our clients do what they do best—focus on their core businesses,” Clifton said.

For more information on The Integrity Group and all of their documentation, training, and marketing communications service offerings, call 877-468-3477 (toll-free), send an email to info@go-integrity.com, or visit www.go-integrity.com.

The Impact of Women-Owned Business

“Women 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 women-owned businesses positively affects their business. Diversity-owned businesses contribute over $1.4 trillion in sales to the U.S. economy.

Carmen Castillo, President of Superior Design International, Inc., in 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 us to understand how to reach the needs of today's consumers.”

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. Large organizational buyers throughout the country that do business with multicultural and women-owned businesses use the list. DiversityBusiness.com, the nation's leading multicultural B2B Internet portal that links large organizational buyers to multicultural product and service suppliers, produces the Div500 list annually.