{"id":21745,"date":"2020-02-07T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21745"},"modified":"2020-02-07T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T03:49:14","slug":"sodexo-honored-as-one-of-americas-top-corporations-for-womens-business-enterprises-by-the-womens-business-enterprise-national-council-wbenc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21745","title":{"rendered":"Sodexo Honored As One of America\u2019s Top Corporations for Women\u2019s Business Enterprises by the Women\u2019s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAITHERSBURG, Md., February\u00a06, 2020\u00a0\/3BL Media\/\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.sodexo.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sodexo<\/a>, a food services and facilities management company committed to improving Quality of Life, announced today that it has been included on the 20th annual list of America&#8217;s Top Corporations for Women&#8217;s Business Enterprises (WBEs), the only national award honoring corporations for world-class supplier diversity programs that reduce barriers and drive growth for women-owned businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSodexo is honored to be recognized by the Women\u2019s Business Enterprise National Council as one of America\u2019s Top Corporations for Women\u2019s Business Enterprises,\u201d said Darlene Fuller, Senior Director, Supplier Diversity, Sodexo North America. \u201cSodexo aims to promote growth for women through its Better Tomorrow 2025 roadmap, which commits to supporting small and local businesses, while also having strong women representation throughout Sodexo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the only national award honoring corporations who choose to integrate policies and programs to enable growth and reduce barriers for women-owned businesses, Sodexo is committed to increasing opportunity in markets \u2013 both domestically, and internationally; fueling innovation; and, empowering communities through economic growth and job creation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are proud to honor WBENC\u2019s Top Corporations for WBEs, including Sodexo, for choosing to break down barriers, enable growth and increase opportunities for women-owned businesses&#8221; said Pamela Prince-Eason, President and CEO of WBENC, the nation&#8217;s leader in women&#8217;s business development. &#8220;WBENC-Certified WBEs in turn fuel innovation and empower communities through economic growth and job creation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sodexo will be honored in front of an audience of more than 1,800 business leaders at the WBENC Summit &amp; Salute taking place March 16-18, 2020 in Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n<p>Sodexo\u2019s commitment to diversity and inclusion has been consistently recognized by external organizations and notable diversity publications. In January, Sodexo was recognized on Bloomberg\u2019s 2020 Gender Equality Index and FORTUNE\u2019S 2019 list of the World\u2019s Most Admired Companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAITHERSBURG, Md., February\u00a06, 2020\u00a0\/3BL Media\/\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sodexo, a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21746,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745\/revisions\/21746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}