Black Enterprise Magazine Names Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Inc. “BE100 Company of the Year”
May 13, 2008 by P.Cash
In the June Issue of one my favorite magazines, Black Enterprise, Oprah Winfrey will be featured in the cover story. She gets much respect from me after what she did for Obama, because I believe that it was her star power that put him over the top in the nomination race.
Off the Business Wire:
On Friday, May 16, BLACK ENTERPRISE will name Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Inc. its 2008 BE100s Company of the Year. The announcement will be made before an audience of nearly 2,000 African American businesspeople and entrepreneurs at the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference + Expo hosted by General Motors in Charlotte, North Carolina.
On the heels of her Company of the Year honor, Winfrey gives an exclusive interview to BLACK ENTERPRISE Editorial Director Sonia Alleyne, discussing her business beginnings, mistakes, lessons learned, and her defining philosophy that is inspiring future business moguls. In BE’s June issue cover feature, “Oprah Means Business,” Winfrey talks about the winning formula that has taken Harpo Inc. from a five-person production company to a 430-employee multimedia conglomerate that grossed $345 million in 2007 (No. 14 on the BE Industrial/Service 100 list). Today, she is one of a handful of black billionaires across the globe; her net worth estimated at $2.5 billion.
