Women’s Business Enterprise Alliance Celebrates 15 years of Increasing Opportunities for Women-Owned Businesses
HOUSTON, TX (January 24th, 2010) - Women’s Business Enterprise Alliance (WBEA) has supported women-owned businesses since 1995 when only a handful of women business owners and corporate supporters formed the organization.
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14 Women's Businesses Named "2010 Women's Business Enterprise Stars" by Women's Business Enterpise National Council
WASHINGTON, DC (December 23, 2009) – Fourteen exemplary women business leaders will step into the spotlight to receive the nation’s premier award for excellence among women’s business enterprises (WBEs) bestowed by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) at its Annual Salute to Women’s Business Enterprises.
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New Enterprising Program Launched to Support Women Entrepreneurs
HOUSTON (Nov. 18, 2008) - Today, on the heels of its signature program - the Pinnacle Awards, the Houston Citizens Chamber of Commerce (HCCC) launched its new 2009 enterprising program to support women-owned businesses called EmpowerWomen.
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The Morris Law Firm P.C. Gains National Recognition
Local Business Named and Ranked 89th among Nation’s Top 500 Emerging Business List...
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WBEA Hosts Its First Annual San Antonio Expo
Woman-owned businesses in Bexar and surrounding counties will get the opportunity to get connected with corporate purchasers, governmental agencies, and other women business owners...
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Excalibur Exhibits Wins 2007 Lantern Award for Large Exhibit
Exhibitor Online - Rochester,MN,USA
Excalibur Exhibits is headquartered in Houston, certified as a woman-owned business, and a member of the OSPI Network...
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Houston CD/DVD Duplication Company
Launches 24-Hour Service...
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista,CA,USA
has earned three different "Houston Business Journal" awards: The Fast Tech 50, the Houston Small Business 100, and the Fastest Growing Woman-Owned Business...
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A VERY SWEET DELIVERY
Dessert Gallery Launches New Website, Bakery to Ship Overnight, Nationwide
August 2007, Houston – How sweet it is! Now Houstonians, as well as dessert lovers across the country, can eat their cake and send one too, thanks to a new consumer website recently launched by Dessert Gallery Bakery & Café. The website, part of the company’s new initiative to reach a national audience, will allow the bakery to deliver their best-selling Diner Cake, Pecan Pie and much more, overnight and nationwide, putting Dessert Gallery on the national map as a manufacturer and distributor of desserts. The site is being introduced to a national audience just in time for the holiday entertaining and gift-giving season, the company’s busiest time of the year...
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Release Date: August 1, 2007
Icon Information Consultants, LP
Icon’s President to Receive Awards from Three Prestigious Organizations
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Release Date: August 6, 2007 
The Common Source Incorporated President & CEO Ann Zdansky To Present Major Donation to Texas EquuSearch
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Dessert Gallery Debuts in Sugar Land
Sugar Land Just Got a Little Sweeter
Sugar Land, TX – After months of waiting, the residents of Sugar Land finally have a Dessert Gallery Bakery & Café they can call their own. Houston’s premier dessert bakery, which has captured the hearts and sweet tooths of Houstonians since 1995, opened the doors to its Sugar Land store on July 1. Located at 2260 Lone Star Drive in Sugar Land Town Square, it is the first store outside of the Houston city limits and the third store owned and operated by award-winning pastry chef Sara Brook.
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June 27, 2007
Houston Business Leader Jean Johnson Named to New WIPP Board Of Directors
Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), the nation’s largest bipartisan women’s business group, announces the formation of a WIPP Board of Directors featuring women business leaders from coast-to-coast.  The new Board of Directors will guide WIPP in raising the voices of 10.4 million women entrepreneurs and 46 national women business organizations in Washington, D.C..
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February 21, 2007
Firms Owned by Women of Color Outpace
All Firms in Growth in Numbers
Washington, DC – Firms owned by women of color are growing at five times the rate of all privately-held U.S. firms, according to estimates released today by the Center for Women’s Business Research. Between 1997 and 2006, the number of privately-held firms that are 51% or more owned by women of color grew at 120%, while all privately-held firms grew by 24%.

The biennial update, Businesses Owned by Women of Color in the United States, 2006, was underwritten by a consortium of corporations and non-profit organizations and is part of a comprehensive, multi-year research initiative launched by the Center for Women’s Business Research and The Center for Women’s Leadership at Babson College... 
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November 9, 2006
Recognition & Scholarship Luncheon
On November 9th at the Downtown Aquarium, WBEs and Corporate partners of the WBEA gathered for the annual Recognition & Scholarship Luncheon.…
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The Houston Business Journal’s fastest-growing
woman-owned businesses
See 30 of the WBEA members race to top of list...
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August 29, 2006
WBEA’S PLACE IN HISTORY SECURED IN UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON’S LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
The Women’s Business Enterprise Alliance (WBEA) has been offered the opportunity to begin a virtual time capsule…
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August 2006
Continuing the tradition of celebrating woman-owned businesses, the Houston Business Journal is proud to present the "Fastest Growing Woman-Owned Businesses" in the Houston area...
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