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Corporate Social Responsibility
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6.02.2005 ET
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Entergy Corporation
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Entergy Earns Top Award for Supplier Diversity
(CSRwire) NEW ORLEANS - Entergy (NYSE: ETR) was recently awarded by The Edison
Electric Institute (EEI) with the industry's 2005 Supplier Diversity Award.
This award, which began in 1985, goes to the company that displays the
highest level of leadership and commitment to ensuring the active
participation of minority and women-businesses in the American economic
system. The award was presented to Entergy on May 17, 2005 during EEI's
annual Supplier Diversity Conference -- held at the Westin Long Beach
Hotel in Long Beach, CA.
Entergy was recognized for a wide variety of initiatives to expand
business opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses. These
include:
Expanding the use of minority and women-owned firms in
non-traditional purchasing activities,
Emphasizing its supplier diversity program and its goals and
objectives within the corporation and throughout all its service areas to
achieve the greatest potential for participation,
Creating a 'user friendly' on-line registration Web site to review
potential suppliers,
Establishing a world-class second tier sourcing initiative.
"Entergy has spent nearly $2.0 billion with diverse suppliers since
becoming the first and only U.S. electric utility holding company to sign
a Declaration of Fair Share Principles with the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People," said Walter Loyd, director of sourcing
support. "This cooperative agreement affirms the Company's commitment to
advancing diversity in its Board of Director representation,
employment/upward mobility, philanthropic giving and procurement."
Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in
electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns
and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric
generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the
United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility
customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has
annual revenues of more than $10 billion and approximately 14,000
employees.
Entergy's online address is www.entergy.com
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