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East Coast Petroleum Wins National Diversity Award

The Quincy Sun, October 3, 2007

East Coast Petroleum Wins National Diversity Award
The Quincy Sun, October 3, 2007
DiversityBusiness.com the nation's leading multicultural internet site, has named East Coast Petroleum of Stoughton as one of the "Top-Diversity-owned Businesses in the United States."

East Coast Petroleum and its CEO, Loretta DeGrazia, represent the country's top female and/or multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a diversity-owned business is limited or insignificant. Diversity members are sought after by major corporations wishing to increase spending with diversity-owned companies. Diversity businesses are found in such varied sectors as technology, manufacturing food services, professional and industry categories. Affected by recent economic and demographic trends and changes, Fortune 1000 corporations throughout the country have recognized that that buying products and services from diversity-owned companies positively impacts their business. Diversity-owned businesses contribute over $1.4 trillion in sales to the U.S. Economy.

"Diversity businesses and consumers are a growing force in the US. 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 new leaders in American Business.

Gloria Bohan, CEO of Omega World Travel in Fairfax, Virginia, commented, "This group represents the entrepreneurial spirit that drives our economy even more. They offer insights into a vastness of cultures and an exchange of ideas that are so valuable in helping me to understand how to reach the needs of today's consumers". East Coast Petroleum, founded by DeGrazia in 1985, is a full-service company providing oil delivery, furnace installation and servicing, and air conditioning installation and servicing. It conducts business on the entire South Shore and in East Massachusetts.