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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alan Fogg, Director of Communications
afogg@fceda.org, 703-790-0600 (o) or 571-213-5065 (m)
Seven Fairfax County companies
make annual Black Enterprise 100 list
Eighteen firms from Virginia and Maryland on list of largest African-American-owned businesses
Fairfax County, Virginia, May 20, 2004—Seven companies based in Fairfax County are among the 100 largest African American-owned service/industrial firms in the country, according to Black Enterprise magazine. The magazine ranks the companies by revenue and features the 2004 list in its June edition.
The seven Fairfax County companies primarily are federal contractors and make up half of the 13 companies on the list from Virginia. Five companies on the list are from Maryland.
The only locality in the United States with more companies on the list than Fairfax County is Detroit (eight). Only states have more companies on the list than Fairfax County: Michigan (16) and California (eight). Seven companies from Texas are on the list.
The seven Fairfax County companies ranked on the 2002 BE 100 list are:
• RS Information Systems, Inc., 15th
• Thompson Hospitality, 28th
• Omniplex World Services, 48th
• UNITECH, 51st
• COMTek, 54th
• McNeil Technologies Inc., 66th
• Axiom Resource Management, Inc., 76th
"We are enormously proud to be home to 7 percent of the nation’s top African American-owned companies, said Gerald L. Gordon, Ph.D., president and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA). “Fairfax County is the best place in America for minority and woman-owned companies to locate and grow, and this is more proof of that."
In 2001, the FCEDA began the Emerging Business Forum (www.emergingbusinessforum.org), a conference and workshops that help minority and female entrepreneurs accelerate the growth of their businesses through access to partners and customers, mentors and capital sources.
The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (www.FairfaxCountyEDA.org) promotes Fairfax County as a business and technology center. The FCEDA assists businesses by identifying possible sites and facilities, and is a source for up-to-date demographic and economic statistics. The FCEDA has a program to assist small, minority and woman-owned firms. The FCEDA also maintains marketing offices in London, Frankfurt and Tokyo, and in 2004 will open offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Bangalore, India.
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