Diana Richards Named To Enterprising Women National Advisory Board

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Diana Richards Named To
Enterprising Women National Advisory Board
Enterprising Women Magazine Announces Vacuum System International CEO As Board Member

RALEIGH, N.C. – Monica Smiley, publisher and CEO of Enterprising Women magazine, has named Diana Richards as an Enterprising Women National Advisory Board member. Richards is the president and CEO of Vacuum System International, Inc., a company which supplies vacuum cleaners and steamers to major retail clients. Members of the Enterprising Women National Advisory Board provide advice to the publication’s staff to tailor the publication to meet the needs of entrepreneurial women.

"Members of the Enterprising Women National Advisory Board are among the nation's finest women entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 leaders," Smiley said. "We are honored to welcome Diana to this distinguished board and appreciate the valuable role she will play working with Enterprising Women to advance women's entrepreneurship for this generation and the generations to follow.”

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. For more information, please visit http://www.enterprisingwomen.com or call 919-362-1551.

About Diana Richards:
Diana Richards is the president and CEO of Vacuum System International, Inc. (VSI), a Cleveland, Ohio-based vacuum cleaner and service provider which supplies vacuum cleaners and steamers to 52 major retail clients (with 66,000 vacuum units in service). VSI is the largest remanufacturing facility for commercial vacuum cleaners in North America, saving over 250,000 units (over 6 million pounds) from our nation’s landfills. Recent expansion of their client base includes hotels, building maintenance contractors and healthcare facilities. Diana did $3.5 million in business in 2005 and is a certified women’s business enterprise and member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Before opening Vacuum Systems International in 1995, Richards owned a retail vacuum cleaner shop for almost 20 years and worked as operations manager for a chain of five vacuum stores.

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Patty Briguglio
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Patty@mmimarketing.com
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