ManpowerGroup Recognized for Fourth Consecutive Year as One of America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth consecutive year, ManpowerGroup has been recognized by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) as one of America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises. The national award recognizes 29 top corporations for their world-class programs that help to create level playing fields for women's business enterprises to compete for corporate contracts. ManpowerGroup is one of only three corporations to be recognized for the fourth consecutive year.

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"ManpowerGroup is committed to working with diverse business owners, and especially women entrepreneurs," said Jorge Perez, senior vice president of Manpower North America. "These small- and medium-size businesses are growing rapidly and are critical to the jobs recovery. It makes good business sense to help emerging enterprises grow and develop given the positive contributions they make to the labor market and the economy as a whole."

ManpowerGroup continues to advance its supplier diversity initiatives with innovative programs that engage women-owned businesses in ways that add value. For example, in 2011 ManpowerGroup launched an Executive Mentoring Program to match high-potential, diverse suppliers with ManpowerGroup's top leaders in order to create business and leadership development opportunities. In addition, ManpowerGroup's hallmark annual roundtable event is an unsurpassed development opportunity for suppliers in the staffing industry.

ManpowerGroup will accept the award during a ceremony at the Landmark Theatre in Baltimore on Thursday, March 22.

About ManpowerGroup

ManpowerGroup™, the world leader in innovative workforce solutions, creates and delivers high-impact solutions that enable our clients to achieve their business goals and enhance their competitiveness. With more than 60 years of experience, our $22 billion company creates unique time to value through a comprehensive suite of innovative solutions that help clients win in the Human Age. These solutions cover an entire range of talent-driven needs from recruitment and assessment, training and development, and career management, to outsourcing and workforce consulting. ManpowerGroup maintains the world's largest and industry-leading network of nearly 3,900 offices in more than 80 countries and territories, generating a dynamic mix of an unmatched global footprint with valuable insight and local expertise to meet the needs of 400,000 clients, across all industry sectors, small and medium-sized enterprises, local, multinational and global companies. The ManpowerGroup suite of solutions is offered through ManpowerGroup™ Solutions, Manpower®, Experis™ and Right Management®. Additional information is available at www.us.manpower.com and http://press.manpower.com/.

About Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)

The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) is the leading advocate for, and authority on, Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) as suppliers and vendors to the nation's corporations. Founded in 1997, WBENC is also the nation's leading third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women, with nearly 11,000 WBENC-Certified WBEs.  WBENC certification is accepted by more than 1,000 corporations representing America's most prestigious brands, in addition to many states, cities and other entities. Throughout the year, WBENC and its 14 Regional Partner Organizations provide opportunities for interactions between more than 650 member corporations, government agencies and thousands of certified WBEs at business building events and other forums.  WBENC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks and accepts donations from corporations, foundations and individuals that support its mission and programs.  For more information, please go to www.wbenc.org.

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