BellSouth Named Georgia Women's Business Council's (GWBC) Corporation of the Year
17 Novembre 2004 - 8:05PM
PR Newswire (US)
BellSouth Named Georgia Women's Business Council's (GWBC)
Corporation of the Year Chief Procurement Executive Tim Houghton
wins Voice Award; Supplier Diversity Manager Beverly Wesley named
Advocate of the Year ATLANTA, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- BellSouth
Corporation (NYSE:BLS) is honored to be selected as Corporation of
the Year by the Georgia Women's Business Council. The presentation,
made during the GWBC's annual awards luncheon, cited BellSouth for
its leadership in providing business and developmental
opportunities for woman-owned firms in Georgia. Also at the event,
BellSouth Chief Procurement Executive Tim Houghton was given the
GWBC Voice Award and BellSouth Supplier Diversity Manager Beverly
Wesley was named the GWBC's Advocate of the Year for their work in
fostering and promoting relationships with woman-owned companies.
BellSouth believes that by fostering entrepreneurship in woman-and
minority-owned firms, it helps build prosperous communities, which
in turn, help build a stronger BellSouth. "Everyone involved
benefits when we expand our business with woman-and minority-owned
firms," explained Phil Jacobs, president of BellSouth's Georgia
operations. "Promoting entrepreneurship is a key avenue to greater
prosperity for communities and businesses, through job creation,
training and investment." And BellSouth is consistently recognized
in its region as a champion of supplier diversity. In 2004 alone,
affiliate councils of the National Minority Supplier Development
Council (NMSDC) honored BellSouth and its employees with:
Corporation of the Year in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi;
Executive of the Year in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; and the
prestigious Crystal Award in Georgia. Nationally, BellSouth has
been named for the past two years to DiversityBusiness.com's Div 50
listing of top corporations for promoting business opportunities
for woman-and minority-owned firms. BellSouth also surpassed a five
year milestone goal from the 1999 SUPERCOMM Supplier Diversity
Challenge to place 10% of its total procurement spending with
diversity suppliers. For more information on supplier diversity at
BellSouth, visit http://www.bellsouth.com/suppliers . GWBC is the
official certification partner of the Women's Business Enterprise
National Council (WBENC) in the state of Georgia. Their mission is
to enhance the competitive value of women-owned business
enterprises (WBEs) through certification, education and corporate
partnership opportunities. For more information on the GWBC, visit
http://www.gwbc.biz/ . About BellSouth Corporation BellSouth
Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered
in Atlanta, Georgia and a parent company of Cingular Wireless, the
nation's largest wireless voice and data provider. Backed by award
winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive
and innovative package of voice and data services available in the
market. Through BellSouth Answers(R), residential and small
business customers can bundle their local and long distance service
with dial up and high speed DSL Internet access, satellite
television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For businesses,
BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice
and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and
directory advertising through BellSouth(R) RealPages.com(R) and The
Real Yellow Pages(R). More information about BellSouth can be found
at http://www.bellsouth.com/ . DATASOURCE: BellSouth Corporation
CONTACT: LeAnn Boucher of BellSouth, +1-404-249-2839, or Web site:
http://www.bellsouth.com/ http://www.bellsouth.com/suppliers
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