Creedon Controls Electrical Contractors, Inc.
3424 Old Capitol Trail, Wilmington, DE 19808
(302) 892-2000 - www.creedoncontrols.com

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Patricia Creedon, President
Creedon Controls Electrical Contractors
(302) 892- 2000 -

The Women's Business Enterprise National Council and theTuck School of Business at Dartmouth Partner to Produce a "First"

Patricia Creedon, President, Creedon Controls Electrical Contractors is among the first graduating class to complete the program.

(Wilmington, DE - November 18, 2003)
Patricia Creedon, President, Creedon Controls Electrical Contractors, Inc. completed the inaugural Executive Education Program for Women Business Enterprise owners at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University.

The Women Business Enterprise National Council has partnered with the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth to offer The Tuck-WBENC Executive Program. The executive management course was held October 6-10, 2003 at the Dartmouth campus in Palisades, New York. Only WBENC-certified WBE owners with 3 to 5 years of experience and minimum annual sales of $300,000 were eligible to apply for the program.

Presented by IBM, and co-sponsored by PepsiCo Foundation, Pfizer and Shell, the Tuck-WBENC Executive Program offered a step-by-step curriculum designed to grow small to medium size businesses with a focus on improving strategic planning, organization, resources, and systems and processes. The course was limited to 60 students and taught by top faculty members at the prestigious Dartmouth Business School. Topics included strategic planning, as well as organization, resource, systems and process development.

"This program will serve as a benchmark for the first graduating class of women business owners to credit as having a direct impact on their ability to grow their businesses," said Susan Bari, president of WBENC. "The feedback from the women business owners has been outstanding, and we are looking forward to offering the program to WBEs again in 2004." According to Patricia Creedon, President, Creedon Controls Electrical Contractors, "The Tuck-WBENC Executive Program was an extraordinary experience. We consumed a lot of information and learned a lot during those five days. It was truly time well spent. Just as memorable as the courses was the opportunity to network with some outstanding women business owners. Some of whom I know I'll be doing business with in the near future."

Tuck is the nation's oldest graduate school of business and ranked as the number two business school in the US by the Wall Street Journal. The school is renowned for the quality of its teaching and the degree to which it fosters collaborative learning, inclusion, and community. WBENC is the nation's leading third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women. With national headquarters in Washington, D.C., WBENC is dedicated to enhancing opportunities for women's business enterprises. In partnership with women's business organizations throughout the United States, WBENC provides access to a national standard of certification and provides information on certified businesses to purchasing managers through an Internet database - WBENCLink - and sourcing opportunities through WEbuy@wbenc.org. For more information about WBENC, visit www.wbenc.org or telephone (202) 872-5515.

Creedon Controls Electrical Contractors is one of only a few Federally Certified SBA 8 (a) certified companies and MBE/DBE (Minority Business Enterprise Disadvantaged Business Enterprise) through the Department of
Transportation in the states of Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

The company is also nationally certified with WBENC (Women's Business Enterprise National Council). For more information on the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) visit www.wbenc.org

Creedon Controls Electrical Contractors was founded in 1989 by Patricia Creedon. She has been recognized more than once for her entrepreneurial skills. In 1997, she was Delaware's SBA Business Person of the Year and in
2002 she was named the Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year by the Business Ledger. The company is a full service electrical commercial industrial contractor capable of handling a variety of projects from basic to high-tech installations. For more information, contact Patricia Creedon at (302) 892-2002.

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