National Grid has been recognized by LATINA Style magazine as one of the 50 best companies for Latinas to work in the U.S. The 50 best companies were selected out of an analysis of more than 800 of the most prominent corporations in the United States for maintaining their commitment to diversity despite the harsh economic conditions in today's market.

"This is National Grid's first listing as one of the best places for Latinas and a further step in the journey to help define National Grid globally as an employer of choice - for our employees, our customers, our shareholders and for the communities within which we operate," said Helen Mahy, National Grid's company secretary and general counsel and executive sponsor of Global Inclusion & Diversity. "We are honored to be recognized for our efforts to cultivate an inclusive environment, which is aligned with our company's Inclusion Charter and will ensure that we are well-positioned when the economy turns around."

LATINA Style is a national publication for contemporary Hispanic women. Now in its 13th year, the annual report sets the standard for identifying corporations that are providing the best career opportunities for Latinas in the U.S. The LATINA Style 50 Report is the most respected evaluation of corporate America's career advancement opportunities for Latinas.

Companies responding to LATINA Style's questionnaire were evaluated based on issues that LATINA Style readers identified as most important to them in the workplace. Evaluations for the 2010 annual report were based on 2009 data.

Among the principal areas of evaluation that make National Grid among the best companies for Latina's to work include:

• A Vice President for Inclusion and Diversity and a Global Inclusion & Diversity Council, both charged with guiding the company's vision to be an employer of choice.


• An Inclusion Charter to provide a clean and consistent understanding of what an inclusive workplace means.


• Hispanic Professional Association and Women In Networks, employee resource groups to provide support and resources for the professional growth of National Grid employees and support the company's I&D vision.


• Educational opportunities, alternative work policies, dependent/child care support, employee benefits, and job retraining.

National Grid's inclusion and diversity efforts have been recognized through a number of awards including, for the third consecutive year a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index for inclusion and diversity efforts relating to LGBT workers; Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology 2010 Best Diversity Company for support of minorities and women, attention to work/life balance and commitment to supplier diversity; Profiles in Diversity Journal's 2009 Innovation Award for the Women Empowered Program, a professional development initiative.

Mahy, along with other National Grid executives, will attend the annual awards ceremony honoring the LATINA Style 50 Companies scheduled for Feb. 3, 2011, during LATINA Style's Diversity Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. For more information regarding LATINA Style 50, please visit the magazine website at www.latinastyle.com.

National Grid is an international energy delivery company. In the U.S., National Grid delivers electricity to approximately 3.3 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, and manages the electricity network on Long Island under an agreement with the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). It is the largest distributor of natural gas in the northeastern U.S., serving approximately 3.4 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island. National Grid also owns over 4,000 megawatts of contracted electricity generation that provides power to over one million LIPA customers.

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