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New Orleans, La.
- Entergy was recently awarded by The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) with the
industry’s 2005 Supplier Diversity Award. This award, which began in 1985, goes
to the company that displays the highest level of leadership and commitment to
ensuring the active participation of minority and women-businesses in the
American economic system. The award was presented to Entergy on May 17, 2005
during EEI’s annual Supplier Diversity Conference – held at the Westin Long
Beach Hotel in Long Beach, CA.
Entergy was
recognized for a wide variety of initiatives to expand business opportunities
for minority and women-owned businesses. These include:
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Expanding the use of minority and
women-owned firms in non-traditional purchasing activities,
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Using a measurable,
results-oriented process to establish annual procurement goals,
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Emphasizing its supplier
diversity program and its goals and objectives within the corporation and
throughout all its service areas to achieve the greatest potential for
participation,
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Creating a ‘user friendly’
on-line registration Web site to review potential suppliers,
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Establishing a world-class second
tier sourcing initiative.
“Entergy has
spent nearly $2.0 billion with diverse suppliers since becoming the first and
only U.S. electric utility holding company to sign a Declaration of Fair Share
Principles with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,”
said Walter Loyd, director of sourcing support. “This cooperative agreement
affirms the Company’s commitment to advancing diversity in its Board of Director
representation, employment/ upward mobility, philanthropic giving and
procurement.”
Entergy
Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power
production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power
plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and
it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy
delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $10 billion and
approximately 14,000 employees.
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Entergy’s online address is www.entergy.com
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