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Andavo Travel Named Top 100 Women’s Business Enterprises
Impacting Supplier Diversity by Women’s Enterprise USA Magazine

DENVER – (Oct. 22, 2007) – Andavo Travel has been chosen as one of the top 100 Women Business Enterprises (WBE) Impacting Supplier Diversity by Women’s Enterprise USA magazine.  The list applauds women-owned companies that positively influence diversity practices across corporate America.

“At Andavo we have a strong commitment to social responsibility and we practice what we preach,” said Brenda Rivers, president and CEO, Andavo Travel. “In managing our vendor selection process, we emphasize diversity in our decision-making strategy to ensure our customers receive impeccable service, from on-site support and exclusive amenities to maximum cost efficiencies.”

Rivers has transformed the company from a $15 million agency when she purchased the company in 1988, to the $100 million travel management firm that it is today.  Andavo Travel employs more than 100 people throughout the United States and maintains partnerships with hundreds of vendors worldwide.

In recognition of her accomplishments as a successful, female business owner, Rivers has been the recipient of several awards, including: “Most Influential CEO in Hospitality and Tourism in North San Francisco Bay”; “Business Woman of the Year” by Ernst & Young; “Business Owner of the Year” for the Rocky Mountain region by the National Association of Women Business Owners; “Outstanding Business Woman of the Year” by the Denver Business Journal; “Who’s Who in Travel & Tourism” by the Denver Business Journal; “Woman-Owned Business of the Year” by the Colorado Federation of Business and Professional Women; “Customer Service” and “Social Responsibility” by Working Woman; and “Exceptional Diversity Supplier of the West” by the national Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).  Rivers’ extraordinary corporate leadership is featured in “The Transparency Edge,” a book authored by Barbara Pagano. She is also profiled in “How She Does It,” by British author, Margaret Heffernan. 

Andavo Travel is nationally certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). The WBENC was created in 1997 to provide WBEs with expanded opportunities to increase their share of the vendor/supplier market both in the private and government sectors.

About Andavo Travel
Andavo Travel, headquartered in Denver, with offices in Larkspur, California, is a $100 million travel management firm. The company is uniquely structured to provide integrated business, leisure/adventure, and meeting & incentive travel solutions through a powerful family of companies that operate independently yet completely collectively.  Andavo is the 25th largest independent travel management firm in the United States, and the largest in Colorado and in the San Francisco North Bay area. For more information, visit www.andavotravel.com.

 

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