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Article: Janice Bryant Howroyd and ... the next act for ACT-1: personnel services company has beaten the odds and made history along the way.(Interview)(Biography)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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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 ...