Davis announces program to assist local businesses

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AUSTIN DAVIS, left, announces along with DCED Secretary Rick Siger the state’s new Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance Program. (Photo by Rob Taylor Jr.) When it was time for Derrick Wilson to speak, the CEO of The Wilson Group, a Black-owned company with its home offices just feet from Pittsburgh in O’Hara Township, didn’t have to say too much. In effect, he let the media and other members in attendance, including Pennsylvania’s Lieutenant Governor and Pa. Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary, look around and smell the $27 million in revenue the company generated in 2023. Wilson is the leader of the company that focuses on being the premier provider of document workflow solutions in the region. Need a copy machine, or printer, or scanner? Wilson’s got it. Best Records Management? Wilson’s got it. Security systems? Wilson’s got that, too. The Wilson Group is an example of a successful minority-owned business. Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis and DCED Secretary Rick Siger want to see more historically disadvantaged businesses have success, which is why they announced at The Wilson Group’s offices on Delta Drive the opening of the Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance Program. THE HISTORICALLY DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM WAS...