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Papworth Everard's Anthias Consulting Ltd. business owner, Diane Turner has become one of the first women to join a pioneering enterprise initiative designed to connect women to multinational corporate contracts.
"I joined WEConnect because it is a great idea and a fantastic opportunity to work with multi-national corporations, who can be difficult to access for small companies like myself - with limited manpower to find the correct person to speak to in such large companies through to having the sales staff to find these opportunities!"
Other women-business owners are being urged to realise their growth aspirations by joining WEConnect, the new supplier diversity initiative, which will link them up with corporate and public sector contracts. Launched at the House of Commons earlier this year, WEConnect has hit the ground running and already boasts leading multinational coporations as members, including; Microsoft, Bank of America and Accenture. It has also received high profile backing from the Government and was named as a critical part of the Governments new Enterprise Strategy.
Sue Lawton, WEConnect Director of Development says "Diane Turner is one of many women who want to take their business to the next level. WEConnect exists to enable women to increase productivity and profitability by identifying contract opportunities. More and more companies recognise the commercial sense of having diversity in their supply chain and we are urging women business owners to capitalise on this".
"This is not about filling quotas: from a supply chain standpoint the more diverse your supply chain is, the stronger it is," says Joe Hill, Executive Vice-President of Bank of America, one of WEConnect's founding members.
Women business owners wanting to find out more should visit: www.weconnect.org.uk.
To read more, download the full press release.
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