About WBEC PA-DE-sNJ

Opening the doors of opportunity

In 2000, the Women’s Business Development Center, the first gender focused women’s business development center in the Mid-Atlantic region, expanded its programs and established, along with Fortune 500 corporations, the Women’s Business Enterprise Council to certify women-owned businesses and assist corporations in creating and building world class supplier diversity programs.

The Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBEC) is a purchasing council for nationally certified women’s business enterprises (WBEs). The Council provides WBENC women business enterprise certification, as well as educational, networking, procurement-related, and informational programs and services that foster growth and business opportunities between WBEs and purchasing entities including major corporations and government agencies.

As a Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) co-founder and regional partner, the Council administers WBENC’s National Certification Standard in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Southern New Jersey.

Currently, WBEC has 583 WBENC certified women business enterprises with revenues in excess of $3.11 billion and who employ 17,334.

WBEC 2010 Members
ACME Markets, AmerisourceBergen, Aramark Corporation, Avon Products, Inc., Bank of America, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Campbell Soup Company, City of Philadelphia, Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - Department of General Services, Communications Test Design, Inc., ConvaTec Inc., Delaware River Port Authority, DuPont Company, EQT Corporation, Ernst & Young, Exelon Corporation, FirstEnergy Corporation, Giant Food Stores, LLC, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Highmark, Inc., IBM Global Procurement, Independence Blue Cross, Johnson & Johnson, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Novo Nordisk, Inc., PASSHE (PA State System of Higher Education), parx casino, Pepco Holdings, Inc., Pfizer Inc., PJM Interconnection, LLC, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Sunoco, Inc., The Day & Zimmermann Group, Inc., The Philadelphia Phillies, The Pittsburgh Pirates, The PNC Financial Services Group, UPS and Verizon.

About WBENC
The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) is dedicated to advancing the success of certified women’s business enterprises and corporate members in partnership with its affiliated women’s business organizations.

WBENC’s goal is to foster diversity in the world of commerce. Its programs and policies are designed to expand opportunities and eliminate barriers in the marketplace for women business owners. WBENC works with representatives of corporations to encourage the utilization and expansion of supplier diversity programs. www.wbenc.org