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Wells Fargo Accepts Center for Women’s Business Research Award

Center for Women’s Business Research  ·  May 19, 2005

The Leading by Example Award recognizes individuals or organizations that are enlarging the possibilities for women business owners. The recipients of this award set the standard for others by demonstrating the courage and leadership to be a role model, and initiate programs and policies that unleash the full economic potential and power of women entrepreneurs.

“With their Women’s Loan Program, which began a decade ago and is now a part of their women’s financial services program, Wells Fargo has lead the way in recognizing the potential of women’s entrepreneurship,” said Marjorie Alfus, Chair of the Center for Women’s Business Research and President of Alfus Family, L.P. “As the history of women’s entrepreneurship is written, Wells Fargo always will be honored for bringing economic credibility to women business owners – not only in the financial industry, but throughout corporate America.”

The Corporate Leading by Example Award was accepted by Joy Ott, Regional President Montana and National Spokesperson for Wells Fargo’s Women’s Business Services program. The award was presented by Marilyn Johnson, Vice President of Market Development, IBM Corporation. IBM was the recipient of the Center’s 2004 Corporate Leading by Example Award.

“It is a great honor to be recognized by the Center for Women’s Business Research for something so core to Wells Fargo’s values – helping women succeed financially – both in business, and personally,” said Joy Ott.

The Center for Women’s Business Research congratulates and thanks Wells Fargo for its many years of contributions to unleashing the economic potential of women business owners and their enterprises.

Past recipients of the Leading by Example Award are: U.S. Secretary of Labor, Elaine L. Chao; Muriel Siebert, Chairwoman and CEO of Muriel Siebert & Company, Inc.; and IBM Corporation.

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Center for Women’s Business Research Center for Women’s Business Research is the premier source of knowledge about women business owners and their enterprises worldwide. The Center’s mission is to unleash the economic potential of women entrepreneurs by conducting research, sharing information and increasing knowledge about this fast-growing sector of the economy.

Since 1989, the Center has generated research-based intelligence that has helped public- and private-sector leaders, advocates, and individual women business owners make informed strategic decisions for generating greater business opportunities.

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