MGM Resorts International recognized as Top Corporation for Women Business Enterprises

The "Top Corporations" list is the only national award program honoring corporations for leading supplier diversity initiatives that reduce barriers and drive growth for women-owned businesses.

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WBENC's Top Corporations will be honored in front of an audience of more than 1,500 attendees, including top-level senior executives from the awarded corporations, at the WBENC Summit & Salute taking place March 22 to 24 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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"We are so proud of WBENC's Top Corporations, including MGM Resorts International, for choosing to set the standard for access and increase opportunities to women suppliers in new markets – both domestically and internationally," said Pamela Prince-Eason, President and CEO of WBENC, the nation's leader in women's business development. "WBENC-Certified WBEs in turn are able to fuel innovation, and empower communities through economic growth and job creation."

WBENC recognized 62 corporations, the largest list in the history of the program, which started in 1999 when only 17 corporations made the list. MGM Resorts is the sole company in the integrated resort industry, and the only company based in Nevada, to earn a spot on WBENC's latest list. Other companies named to the list include: Allstate Insurance Company, The Coca-Cola Company, FedEx and Johnson & Johnson, among others.

WBENC's Top Corporations will be honored in front of an audience of more than 1,500 attendees, including top-level senior executives from the awarded corporations, at the WBENC Summit & Salute taking place March 22 to 24 in Phoenix, AZ.

"This is a great honor for our company. Economic empowerment is vital to achievement by American women of full economic, social and political equality. MGM Resorts International is committed to inclusion of women-owned businesses in our stream of commerce," said Phyllis A. James, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer.