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Article Excerpt
WHEN Janice Bryant Howroyd began her personnel company in 1978, competitors, large and small, paid little or no attention. Her company was new, small and easily dismissed. "After all, I was just a nappy-headed girl from North Carolina," she recalls. "They saw mine as that cute little local, minority-, woman-owned company. Second-tier and a back-up vendor."
And that suited her just fine. She was patient and reasoned that she was learning the ropes while growing slowly. "There weren't very many women-led organizations," she says, "and we weren't seen as a threat."
Well, 27 years later, her company has grown exponentially and operates on a global level--while many of those early competitors who so cavalierly dismissed her are long gone.
The company, ACT-1 Personnel Services, has annual sales of more than $480 million and is believed to be the largest female-, minority-owned employment agency in the United States. The company, based in Torrance, Calif., has more than 400 employees and provides staffing, human resources and management solutions to numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Ford Motors, Coors, Cingular, the...
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