Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties

(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 21, 2006 ) RALEIGH, N.C. -- Billie Redmond, president of Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties, has won the annual Opening Doors award from the Business and Professional Women/USA’s groups of Raleigh and the Triangle. She received the award at the 10th annual Opening Doors event held Oct. 17 at the Radisson Governor’s Inn in Research Triangle Park. The award recognizes women who have excelled in their careers and made strides to open doors for women in their workplace. Both the Raleigh and Triangle chapters of the Business and Professional Women/USA give the Opening Doors award annually in observance of National Business Women’s Week to three outstanding professional women in the Triangle.“I am honored to accept this award,” said Redmond. “The work of the Business and Professional Women’s groups have helped to advance women in the workplace all over the Triangle, and I am pleased to be recognized by them.”About Billie Redmond: Redmond has been named a 2005 inductee to the YWCA’s Academy of Women, a 2003 Business Leader Magazine’s Women Extraordinaire and to the lists of Top Women in Businesses in the Triangle, Top 25 Women Owned Businesses in North Carolina, The News & Observer’s Tar Heel of the Week, and to the Business Leader Impact List. She has served as a member of the Board of Communities in School of Wake County, Wake Education Partnership, Research Triangle Regional Partnership, Kids ’n Communities Foundation, Paragon Bank, WakeMed Hospitals and as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, RADA and is Co-chair of the Wake County Citizens Facilities Advisory Committee. A native North Carolinian, Redmond is President of Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties, a Raleigh based property management, leasing, and brokerage services company. In June 2003, TradeMark joined the national affiliation network of Coldwell Banker Commercial and is the largest woman owned affiliate in the network, representing a variety of asset and facility management clients.About Business and Professional Women/USA: Business and Professional Women (BPW)/USA, founded in 1919, is a multi-generational, bipartisan membership organization with a mission to achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education, and information. Established as the first organization to focus on issues of workingwomen, BPW/USA is historically a leader in grassroots activism, policy influence and advocacy for millions of workingwomen. BPW Local Organizations provide members with professional development programs, networking, participation in grassroots activities and opportunities to support scholarships. For more information, visit http://www.bpwusa.org.About Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties: Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties is a full-service real estate asset management company that provides property management services, which includes facility, physical and fiscal management; as well as leasing and brokerage services throughout the Triangle. TradeMark's licensed real estate agents are market experts in their areas of industry specialization, including commercial, residential, retail, forestry, and investment property sales. The executive management team of Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties has over 100 years of combined real estate experience. The firm has been recognized in Metro Magazine’s 2004 Metro Bravo! Awards as being one of the top commercial real estate firms in the Triangle. The Triangle Business Journal named the firm Best Place to Work in 2004 and ranked it among the top commercial real estate firms in North Carolina for 2006. For more information please call 919-782-5552 or on the Internet at www.trademarkproperties.com. Patty Briguglio MMI Associates, Inc. 919-233-6600 patty@mmimarketing.com

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