Painters USA President Meg Cook awarded WBENC “2023 Women’s Business Enterprise Star”

WBE Star is the premier award for women’s leadership excellence given annually by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)

Glendale Heights, IL, March 07, 2023 – Painters USA President and Board Chair Meg Cook has been recognized as a WBE Star by WBENC, the nation’s largest certifier of women-owned businesses.

The WBE Star Award honors 14 women across the country—representing WBENC’s 14 Regional Partner Organizations—who are leaders in their local business communities and respective fields. The 2023 WBE Stars will be honored during the 2023 WBENC National conference March 20-23, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee.

This year, WBENC sought to recognize and celebrate WBEs who have demonstrated remarkable resilience and capacity to reinvent themselves. These WBE Stars are being honored for perseverance and excellence through reinvention and innovation, despite the unprecedented challenges of recent years.

Pamela Prince-Eason, WBENC President and CEO

Meg herself has said that she finds it humbling to be included in this group of women leaders from across the country, and that she is grateful to her RPO, or Regional Partner Organization. The RPOs are responsible for the administration of the WBENC certification prorgram across the United States.

“I am especially honored to be recognized by my Regional Partner Organization, the Women’s Business Development Center-Midwest, which inspires me to continue learning and giving. I encourage all women-owned businesses to tap into the potential of the WBENC network and the local RPO resources that would be available to them.”

ABOUT PAINTERS USA

Painters USA was established in 1982 to provide the highest quality painting services while taking care of its employees. Since then, the company has grown into a thriving business, providing painting, concrete flooring and industrial cleaning services to a wide variety of commercial and industrial clients across the United States, from single site companies to global enterprises. Painters USA is proud to be a woman-owned, WBENC-certified company and recognized as a Great Place To Work.

ABOUT WBENC

WBENC is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned, controlled, and operated by women in the United States. WBENC partners with 14 Regional Partner Organizations (RPOs) to provide its world-class standard of certification to women-owned businesses throughout the country. WBENC is also the nation's leading advocate of women-owned businesses and entrepreneurs, supported by more than 540 Corporate Members. Learn more at www.wbenc.org.

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Press release announcing Meg Cook recognition

WBE Star Award

2023 WBENC National Conference

Women's Business Development Center-Midwest (Chicago-based RPO)