MadeToOrder Certified as a Women's Business Enterprise.PLEASANTON, Calif. -- MadeToOrder has been certified as a Women's Business Enterprise by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC WBENC Women's Business Enterprise National Council .) "Terrific," said Barbara Brown Barbara Brown may be one of several people:
The coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. certification is important to more than 700 U.S. and international corporations, representing America's most prestigious brands, that recognize this standard for compliance when they seek to promote diversity in contracting. According to the U.S. Census, about 28 percent of the companies in America were women-owned in 2002. But at the same time, women-owned businesses received fewer than 3 percent of federal contracts, according to Susan Phillips Bari, president of the WBENC. Many federal and other government agency programs require their contractors to make verifiable efforts to contract with women-owned businesses. MadeToOrder joins more than 5,000 women-run companies that have been certified by the WBENC as WBE's. The average certified WBE WBE Women's Business Enterprise WBE Women-owned Business Enterprises WBE Woman-owned Business Enterprise WBE Web-Based Education WBE Welch-Bound-Equality WBE World Business Exchange WBE Warner Bros. has 48 employees and more than $7.5 million in annual revenues, according to WBENC. MadeToOrder recorded $11 million in sales in 2005, serving a sophisticated, high value client in predominantly Fortune 1000 firms. MTO MTO Make-To-Order MTO More Than One MTO Made to Order MTO Microsystems Technology Office MTO Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (government of Ontario, Canada) MTO Monto MTO Mediterranean Theater of Operations offers a suite of both online and offline services empowering large enterprises to protect their brands and aggregate purchases of this class of goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . MTO has developed proprietary software to manage large-scale service awards programs, inventory and distribution of branded apparel and logo merchandise and back-end reporting to marketing, sales and human resource managers. MadeToOrder was formed in 2002 by a handful of logo merchandise sales professionals who were disturbed by what they saw as the direction of their industry towards impersonal, increasingly mechanized mech·a·nize tr.v. mech·a·nized, mech·a·niz·ing, mech·a·niz·es 1. To equip with machinery: mechanize a factory. 2. "business solutions." That trend did not encompass the vast number of alternatives, iterations and changes required to accommodate the needs of real buyers. MadeToOrder's partners, breaking away from their former employers, dedicated themselves to apply the highest possible level of individual service to help their clients reinforce corporate identities through the development of unique and memorable branded merchandise and efficient delivery vehicles for information and goods. MadeToOrder is managed by eight senior sales executives, five of whom are women. Almost 75% of the some 25 employees are women. The WBENC certification process entails a rigorous examination of company and individual business records. |
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