WPO Member Wins 2006 Enterprising Women Of The Year Award

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WPO Member Wins 2006 Enterprising Women Of The Year Award
Carmen Castillo Wins Prestigious Award

NEW YORK – Marsha Firestone, president of the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), has announced that WPO member Carmen Castillo, president of Superior Design International (SDI) in Fort Lauderdale, FL, has received the 2006 Enterprising Women of the Year Award in the category for women who earn over $25 million in annual revenue. The Enterprising Women of the Year Award honors the country's finest women entrepreneurs and their remarkable success. The winners are also recognized as leaders who have had a profound economic impact on their community. Seventeen of this year’s award winners are WPO members.

Castillo has developed SDI from a small startup to one of the nation’s largest Hispanic-owned businesses in the nation with branches throughout the U.S. and Canada. The company creates web-based vendor and supply chain management services and tools for its Fortune 500 clients.

“This year our members were represented in every category of the Enterprising Women of the Year Awards,” said Firestone. “Carmen’s recognition is a tribute not only to her success, but also to her peers in the WPO who together helped her reach farther. We are so proud of her.”

About Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO):
The Women President’s Organization (WPO) connects top women entrepreneurs at the million and multi-million dollar level ($2 million in gross annual sales or $1 million for service-based business) – locally and internationally – with greater personal and professional success. In monthly meetings across the US and Canada, chapters composed of 20 accomplished women presidents – from diverse industries and backgrounds – invest time and energy in themselves and their businesses to drive their corporations to the next level. For more information, call 212-688-4114 or visit http://www.womenpresidentsorg.com.

About Enterprising Women Magazine:
Enterprising Women, headquartered in Cary, NC, is the nation’s only women-owned magazine published exclusively for women business owners that chronicles the growing political, economic and social influence and power of entrepreneurial women. The magazine provides a friendly meeting place, a public forum, and a national stage for the critical issues confronting women’s businesses and daily lives from the unique perspectives and experiences of entrepreneurial women.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com

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