Advertisement Service

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to award a sole source fixed-price contract to Earl G. Graves LTD, dba BLACK ENTERPRISE , 260 Madison Avenue, Suite II, New York, NY 10016-2412. As required by Section 342(f)(3) of the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) is to place employment advertisements in newspapers and magazines oriented towards minorities and women. Market research identified BLACK ENTERPRISE magazine as an avenue to attract a diverse group of minority senior executives. Based on the demographics profiles of the readership for BLACK ENTERPRISE , including professional status, educational levels, age, familiarities with the securities industry, and minority business interest, OMWI believes it is imperative to market and expose the readership to the SEC. The BLACK ENTERPRISE magazine audience is not only sizable (4 million readers, 500,000 paid circulation) it's unduplicated. With only a 10% reader overlap with other financial publications, BLACK ENTERPRISE is a direct line to an affluent educated minority audience not found elsewhere. The contract value for this firm-fixed price service is $20,480.