Southwest Regional Business Matchmaking in Houston, Texas

Southwest Regional Business Matchmaking in Houston, Texas

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), SCORE-Counselors to America’s Small Business, and HP today opened the Southwest Regional Business Matchmaking event will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Some 1,000 small business owners are attending to meet face to face with buying representatives from 200 federal, state and local government agencies and major corporations from throughout the country.

Since its inception in 2003, Business Matchmaking has – through regional events and through its post-Katrina special initiative – generated more than 40,000 one-on-one appointments resulting in more than $700 million in contracting opportunities for small businesses.

Three companies have joined the Business Matchmaking team in Houston as new cosponsors. They include Monster, the leading employment website which hosts over 40 million resumes; RIM (Research in Motion), the designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless solutions; and Symantec, a provider of information technology security solutions to individuals as well as large and small companies.

Monster, RIM and Symantec join Aflac, Federal Express, MasterCard, American Airlines, Administaff, Lockheed, AMD, eAgency and Chevron as cosponsors for the Houston event, enabling small businesses and government and private sector buyers to participate in the Business Matchmaking project without cost.

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