NAMWOLF Lauds Procter & Gamble and Toyota Manufacturing North America Inc. for Support of Minority-Owned Businesses

The National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) applauds Procter & Gamble and Toyota Manufacturing North America Inc. for receiving the Governors Minority Business Development Recognition Award recently in Ohio.

LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) July 9, 2004 -- The National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) applauds Procter & Gamble and Toyota Manufacturing North America Inc. for receiving the Governors Minority Business Development Recognition Award recently in Ohio.

NAMWOLF is pleased to learn of Procter & Gamble and Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America Inc. receiving this important award," stated Yolanda Coly, Associate Director of NAMWOLF. We are looking forward to working with both of these major companies to increase opportunities for women and minority-owned law firms."

The Procter & Gamble (www.pg.com) community consists of nearly 98,000 people working in almost 80 countries worldwide. What began as a small, family-operated soap and candle company now provides products and services of superior quality and value to consumers in 140 countries. Procter & Gamble has one of the largest and strongest portfolios of trusted brands, including Pampers, Tide, Ariel, Always, Pantene, Bounty, Folgers, Pringles, Charmin, Downy, Iams, Crest, Actonel, and Olay.

Toyota Motor Corporation (www.toyota.com) is one of the world's leading automakers and together with its subsidiaries produces a full range of model offerings-from minivehicles to large trucks. Besides its own 12 plants and 11 manufacturing subsidiaries and affiliates in Japan, Toyota has 46 manufacturing companies in 26 countries and locations, which produce Lexus and Toyota-brand vehicles and components and employs about 264,100 people worldwide (on a consolidated basis), and markets vehicles in more than 140 countries and locations.

The National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (www.namwolf.org) was founded in June, 2001. It is a national trade association comprising a select group of minority and women-owned law firms who exhibit excellence in the legal profession. The primary aim of the organization is to advocate for the increased utilization of minority and women-owned law firms by major corporations and public entities throughout the United States.