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“Dream Team” — Burrell Communications

Filed under Companies to Watch, Diversity and Careers, Women and Careers
Posted by Libraries, June 23, 2006
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Wendy L. Wilson, Essence, June 2006, Vol. 37, Issue 2, p. 114.

Working for the “better good” and having an awareness of people help make Burrell Communications one of the largest Black-owned ad agencies, according to this short profile. Burrell’s two women CEOs, Fay Ferguson and McGhee Williams Osee, succeed because they understand what founder Tom Burrell said years ago — “Black people are not dark-skinned White people.” The result is that the firm boasts major accounts with such companies as McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble, General Mills, and Allstate.

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