Daniel Penn Associates, LLC Named to Top
500 Hispanic American Owned Businesses
in the US Top Business List for 2009

West Hartford, CT, January 23, 2009

In recognition of the economic power of privately held businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading business-to-business internet site, recently named Daniel Penn Associates, LLC as one of its top businesses in the United States.

This is the 9th annual listing of the US top businesses by DiversityBusiness.com. Ranging in revenue size from 1,000,000 to over 314,000,000, 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.”

“Our mission is to provide quality consulting services at the most reasonable cost. In these economic times, it’s very important that we continue to bring value to our clients,” said Daniel Penn Associates President Tony Rodriguez. “This recognition confirms that we are doing the right thing.”

The List

The 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: www.diversitybusiness.com.

About Daniel Penn Associates

Since 1978, Daniel Penn Associates has been helping national and international clients improve operating performance and reduce supply chain costs. Our consulting service features time-tested “Lean” concepts to eliminate wasted time, effort and expense resulting in improvements to delivery performance, quality and customer satisfaction. Our collaborative approach enables the development of solutions that promote client ownership, which is key to achieving continuous improvement and operational excellence sustainability.

Our services and expertise include lean & six sigma services, reliability based maintenance improvement programs, supply chain logistics and network optimization, business process redesign, inventory management, spend management and strategic sourcing , warehousing reconfiguration, and staffing capacity modeling. The mix of services are chosen to address the objectives of each client assignment.

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.

Contact
Tony Rodriguez
860-232-8577
info@danielpenn.com

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