Triage Partners Ranked One of DiversityBusiness.com’s Top 500 Small Businesses Nationwide                                                

Tampa-based Technology Staffing Firm Ranks #72 Among Florida Businesses

TAMPA, Fla. – (Dec. 14, 2006) – Triage Partners, LLC, a leading staff augmentation and consulting firm serving the technology industry, has been named one of Top Small Businesses in the United States by DiversityBusiness.com, the nation’s leading multicultural business website.

“We are excited and honored to be recognized as a Top Small Business for the second consecutive year,” said Patricia Dominguez, president of Triage Partners, LLC.  “Our practice of gaining a deep understanding of our customers’ goals and challenges coupled with our unparalleled ability to match the right people and personalities to the right projects is yielding great results for our customers and our business.”

Triage Partners, LLC made DiversityBusiness.com’s 7th annual Div500 list, a ranking of the nation’s top 500 diversity-owned businesses.  Ranging in revenue size from $20 million to over $2 billion, the companies listed on the Div500 represent the nation’s top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that diversity-owned businesses are small or insignificant.

“Diversity-owned businesses contribute over $1.4 trillion in ales to the U.S. economy,” said Kenton Clarke, CEO of Computer Consulting Associates International, the company that built DiversityBusiness.com. “It is no longer just “the right thing” to do business with diversity suppliers. Because of recent economic and demographic trends and changes, major corporations are realizing that having a diverse supplier base positively impacts their business revenue from this sector of buyers”.

Over 500,000 businesses in the United Sates had the opportunity to participate in DiversityBusiness.com’s survey, which ranks businesses based on annual gross sales. The Div500 list companies will be honored at the 7th Annual DiversityBusiness.com Multicultural Awards Ceremony and Forum, to be held April 11- 13, 2007 at the Mirage Resort in Las Vegas.

About The Div500

The Div500 is a classification that represents the Top 500 diversity-owned (women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native American and other minority groups) businesses in the U.S., in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services. Major corporations, government agencies and college/universities throughout the country that do business with multicultural and women-owned businesses use the list The Div500 is produced annually by DiversityBusiness.com, the nation's leading multicultural B2B Internet portal that links large organizational buyers to multicultural product and service businesses. For more information, visit www.diversitybusiness.com.

About Triage Partners, LLC
Triage Partners provides staff augmentation and services for the technology industry.  Our unique strategic management approach provides the most effective matching of technology talent with your project’s needs.  We augment staff to build high performance teams and connect talented, smart people to challenging projects.  Triage Partners is a certified Women Owned Business Enterprise (WBE). 

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