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Danielle Abril, host interviewing Chandra Marshall Henson, Executive General Manager of Business Development and Procurement Services for the
City of Dallas
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April, 2008 — Orlando, FL Diversity business event coverage from your source for Women’s and minority business development stories around the country: Business News Group. Visit us at www.mbnusa.biz and www.weusa.biz today to stay informed, network your business, use our resources, watch our exclusive videos and interviews with all the movers and shakers in the corporate world as well as WBEs and mbes.
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April, 2008 — Chicago Business Opportunity Fair (CBOF) event coverage from your source for Women’s and minority business development stories around the country: Business News Group. Visit us at www.mbnusa.biz and www.weusa.biz today to stay informed, network your business, use our resources, watch our exclusive videos and interviews with all the movers and shakers in the corporate world as well as WBEs and mbes.
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Jarilyn Fox, President and Publisher of Business News Group interviewing Kelvin Bernard, President and CEO of Panther Global Group, Delores Hargrove-Young, President and COO of XLC Services, and Ric Powell, General Manager of Versatex on their mbe partnership that landed them a contract as P&G’s managed service provider.
About Business News Group Online
MBN USA is not just your leading business news magazine anymore. Building on its 20-year old award-wining print and event brand, the online edition of the magazine, although in its infancy, is already blazing trails. It is been deemed as “best in its class” for news affecting the minority business arena. The Site lauds itself in being the first in its niche market for people to add their company profile, market their company, network with industry professionals, follow people and writers, post company updates, news and events, manage followers and rank web content and videos.
About Us In Print
MBN USA is America’s award-winning magazine authority on supplier and workforce diversity. Since 1988, our passion for delivering the latest news and information about minority economic development has yielded a positive impact on the manner in which corporate decision makers and minority business entrepreneurs view diversity as a means for taking their enterprises to the next level.
Reaching an audience of minority business owners, corporate procurement managers, education professionals, and government representatives, MBN USA focuses on providing optimum value for the readers, advertisers and communities it serves.
Regular features focus on our nation’s top corporations, extraordinary business owners and leaders, government agencies, unique university programs and community advocates. Topics include corporate purchasing trends, minority business certification, corporate social responsibility, best practices among c-suite executives, and management tips for business professionals. When it comes to current news in supplier and workforce diversity MBN USA is your source.
Supplier Diversity, Black Business, Asian Business, Asian-American Business, American-Indian Business. Hispanic Business, Latino-Business, Indo Asian Business, Minority, Minority, Minority Supplier Diversity Council, MWBE, MBE, WBE, DBE, Disadvantage Business, Access to Capital, Small Business, Diversity, Multi- Cultural, multicultural, Billion Dollar Roundtable, Million Dollar Roundtable, Workforce Diversity, Chief Diversity Officer, Chief Procurement Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, NMSDC, MED Week, Minority Business News, Rothe Decision, Unity Group, MBDA, Minority Economic Development
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Host- Danielle Abril
Assistant Editor and Creative Director
Business News Group
Special Guest- Michael Bartschat
Group Vice President
Johnson Controls Inc.
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“Business case for supplier diversity” presented by CAMSC (Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council)
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Host- Jarilyn Fox
President and Publisher
Business News Group
Special Guest
Ying McGuire
Senior Manager, Global Supplier Diversity
Dell
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Mel Hawkins, President, Apex Electric – an minority-owned business enterprise or mbe subcontractor, discusses how MGM CityCenter was delivered on time by Perini Building Company and its subcontractors, and has been open for four months and that MGM has paid only $5.79 billion of it’s $6.29 billion contract. The balance due is $500 million of which $400 million is due to the subcontractors and $40 million to minority and women-owned business and $100 million to Perini themselves.
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The Portland Development Commission has exceeded 35 percent diversity in contracting in a city that is reported to be the whitest in the United States. Bold adoption of aggressive requirements followed by structural changes and internal oversight made the difference. In each of the past two years, PDC has exceeded its goals for utilization of minority, women-owned and emerging small businesses (M/W/ESB) by at least 15 percent annually, achieving more than 35 percent of the dollars committed to state-certified firms.
For 2008-2009, PDC spent $94 million on construction projects; $35 million of that went to M/W/ESB firms. Another $36 million is committed to additional PDC-supervised projects of more than $70 million to M/W/ESB firms. Apprentices worked nearly 250,000 of the total hours in the past fiscal year, or three percent above the 20 percent PDC goal.
“For PDC to be willing to take this on, to commit to making a difference here, says that part of economic development is economic development for everybody. Thats leadership, says Connie Ashbrook, founder of Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc.
Download the 2008-2009 Diversity in Contracting Report here, http://www.pdc.us/diversity
Video produced by
John Cárdenas
Music by
Yo La Tengo- “Retrun To Hot Chicken”
Fernando- “Same Ol’ King”
Duration : 0:2:35
Video Courtesy of the Knoxville Area Urban League