![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
2002 Awards and Honors
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Brand & Reputation Service Diversity Innovation Leadership Brand & Reputation Network Industry’s 10 Most Powerful Companies Network World magazine’s list of America’s leading companies December 2002
America’s Most Admired Telecommunications Companies in the U.S. Fortune magazine March 2002
Global Most Admired Telecommunications CompaniesFortune magazine March 2002
Fortune 500 -- #11 Fortune magazine’s list of largest companies in the U.S April 2002
Fortune’s Global 500 -- #32Fortune magazine’s list of largest companies in the world April 2002
Forbes’ 500Forbes magazine’s list of America’s leading companies April 2002
Top Customer Care Leadership Award“Best Call Center Senior Executive” – Ellen Corcoran For Quality of Service Offered to Consumers by Employees in Verizon Business Offices Call Center Magazine November 2002
Contributions to National SecurityFor leadership in Verizon’s network restoration efforts following Sept. 11, 2001 Business Executives for National Security (BENS) BENS Eisenhower Award to Larry Babbio November 2002
“Best of What’s New” – Verizon Wireless’ Express NetworkNovember 2002
Direct Marketing Excellence – Verizon Long Distance International ECHO Awards Direct Marketing Association November 2002
Customer Satisfaction for Providing Service Over the PhoneGood Housekeeping magazine October 2002
Most Reliable Network and Customer Service – Verizon Wireless Wall Street Journal October 2002
Broadband Provider of the Year – Verizon AvenueCornerstone Award for Excellence In providing broadband service to residential multi-family properties Broadband Properties Magazine October 2002
Highest service-quality results since Verizon was created in 2000 J.D. Power & Associates Residential Local Telephone Customer Satisfaction Study August 2002
Excellence in Customer Satisfaction in DSL ServiceScore of 106 in high-speed provider segment, a 16% improvement over 2001 (Industry average score – 100) J.D. Power & Associates 2002 Internet Service Provider Residential Customer Satisfaction Study August 2002
#1 in Customer Satisfaction in Service Among Long-Distance High-Volume Callers J.D. Power & Associates Residential Long Distance Customer Satisfaction Study July 2002
Best Wireless Service – Verizon WirelessWorth Magazine July/August 2002
Top Telecom Company of Online ServiceThe Customer Respect Group March 2002
Four Commendations for Excellent Service in New YorkFor excellent service in the Bronx, Queens, Northern Manhattan, and on Long Island New York Public Service Commission March 2002
Best in Wireless ServiceRochester, New York (Democrat & Chronicle) November 2002 Maryland (Carroll County Times) November 2002 Riverside, California (Riverside Press-Enterprise) Orange County, California (Orange County Register) Florida (The Independent Florida Sun) August 2002 Washington, D.C. (Washingtonian Magazine) July 2002 South Carolina – for 2nd consecutive year (The State & Greenville News) New Jersey (The Ocean County Observer, Asbury Park Press, The Home News Tribute) June 2002 Connecticut (WFSB-TV, Hartford/New Haven) May 2002 Delaware – for the 2nd consecutive year (Delaware State News) February 2002 Williamsburg (The Virginia Gazette) Feb. 2002 Arizona (Ranking Arizona Business) January 2002 Best of the Desert 2002 (Daily Press, Victorville, CA) January 2002 Boston (Boston Globe) January 2002 Kentucky – for the 5th consecutive year (The Messenger) January 2002
U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce November 2002
Visionary Leadership in DiversityLeadership and Commitment to Diversity Award to Bruce Gordon Business Women’s Network and Diversity Best Practices October 2002
Commitment to Diversity1st telecommunications company to receive Corporate Award Executive Leadership Council October 2002
Most Powerful Women in Business – Doreen TobenFortune magazine October 2002 50 Most Powerful Black Executives – Bruce GordonFortune magazine August 2002
Top 50 Companies for Supplier DiversityHispanic Network magazine July 2002
2002 Employer of ChoiceThe Minority Corporate Counsel Association July 2002
Corporate Best Practice – Verizon’s Development and Leadership Initiative 100 for Providing Opportunities for Hispanics Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility July 2002
Outstanding 50 Asian-Americans in Business – Keiko Harvey Excellence in Diversity Award for Executive Leadership Savoy magazine June 2002
Leadership Award to Verizon’s June Jee National Association of Asian-American Professionals May 2002 Leadership and Commitment to Diversity Award to Ivan SeidenbergNational Minority Supplier Development Council May 2002
Top 50 Companies for DiversityDiversityInc.com May 2002 (Also 2001) Excellence in Multicultural AdvertisingAmerican Association of Advertising Agencies May 2002
The 50 Best Companies for MinoritiesFortune magazine April 2002 (Also 2001, 2000)
Best Lesbian Places To WorkGirlfriends magazine April 2002
Minority Business Advocate of the Year AwardThe Business Journal April 2002 Top Website among Telecommunications Companies DiversityInc.com April 2002
Top 10 Companies for Supplier DiversityTop Company for Recruitment and RetentionDiversityInc.com April 2002
Top 25 Influential Black Women in Business – Andrea CustisNetwork Journal March 2002
Corporate 100For providing opportunities for Hispanics Hispanic magazine March 2002 (Also 2001)
100 Best Companies for Latinos to WorkHispanic magazine February 2002
2002 Excellence in Hispanic Direct Marketing CompanyDirect Marketing Associations’ Directo: Council for Hispanic Marketing February 2002
“Best of the Tests” Award – Verizon WirelessFor Verizon Wireless’ Express Network Network World November 2002
Best of What’s New” – Verizon WirelessFor Verizon Wireless’ Express Network Popular Science November 2002
Innovation Honor to Ray Tomlinson of BBN Technologies (Verizon subsidiary) (Inventing e-mail and helping in development of ARPANET, the forerunner of today’s Internet) Discover Magazine June 2002
Among the best patent scorecard for quantity and qualityTechnology Review and CHI Research May 2002
50 Most Powerful People in Networking – Ivan SeidenbergNetwork World December 2002
Top Communications Company for Sell-Side Investor RelationsAnnual Reuters Institutional Investor Survey December 2002
2002 Person of the Year – Dennis Strigl, Verizon WirelessRCR Wireless News December 2002
50 Most Powerful Women in Business – Doreen Toben#25 on list Fortune magazine October 2002
Best of the Best – Best Workplace in America Verizon Information Services’ Los Angeles Printing Plant Facility Master Printers of America / Printing Industries of America, Inc. September 2002
Commitment to LiteracyCorporate Leader Award Champions of Hope August 2002
Most Powerful Black Executives – Bruce GordonFortune magazine’s Most Powerful Black Executives in America July 2002
Literacy Champion AwardReach Out and Read June 2002
Leader in Literacy 2002 National Literacy Leadership Award Verizon’s 2nd consecutive year to receive award Laubach Literacy International and Literacy Volunteers of America June 2002
Crain’s 100 Most Influential Leaders in Business – Ivan SeidenbergCrain’s New York Business
Asian-American Leadership Award – Keiko HarveyOutstanding 50 Asian-Americans in Business Asian-American Business Development Center June 2002
2002 Climate Protection AwardU.S. Environmental Protection Agency June 2002 2002 Energy Star Award for Corporate CommitmentU.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy March 2002
National Literacy Award for Innovation Partnerships with the Literacy Community William F. Gooding Literacy Award National Center for Family Literacy March 2002
2003 National Health Information Awards WinnerVerizon’s health promotion/diseases and injury prevention information program Health Information Resource Center 2002
Network World magazine’s list of America’s leading companies
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||