We Energies Honored for Supplier Diversity
two awards: the 2010 Supplier Diversity Innovation Award, in recognition of the company’s innovative efforts to encour- age diversity among its suppliers, and the Vendor Opportunity Award, honoring the company’s commitment, encouragement and mentoring of minority- and women- owned businesses. Southern California Edison and Georgia Power Company were also EEI diversity award recipients this year. “These electric companies deserve
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praise for their efforts to expand purchas- ing opportunities for minority and wom- en-owned businesses,” said EEI President Thomas R. Kuhn. “Their efforts to broad- en their supplier base keep them among the most competitive electric and natural
e Energies has been honored by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) with
gas delivery companies in the country. Their efforts also help the U.S. electric power industry to be among the strongest industries in the world.” Electric companies earn the Supplier
Diversity Innovation award by setting a standard for other companies to follow. We Energies earned the innovation award by creating a strong supplier diversity policy signed by Chairman, President and Chief Executive Gale Klappa and by suc- cessfully seeking out and using minority suppliers for its finance, investing, and banking services. “Utilizing diverse suppliers makes
good business sense,” says Jerry Fulmer, director of the company’s Supplier Diver- sity Initiative. “Through our Supplier Di- versity Initiative, we are committed to building meaningful business relation-
ships with minority-owned, women- owned, veteran-owned and service dis- abled-owned businesses. The objective is to encourage and promote the develop- ment, use and growth of a broad base of suppliers who want to provide quality products and services.” We Energies serves more than 1.1 mil-
lion electric customers in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and more than 1 million natural gas customers in Wisconsin. We Energies is the trade name of Wisconsin Electric Power Company and Wisconsin Gas LLC, the principal utility subsidiaries of Wisconsin Energy Corporation (NYSE: WEC). Visit the We Energies Web site at www.we-energies. com. Learn more about Wisconsin Energy Corporation by visiting www.wiscon-
sinenergy.com. Source:
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