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Carmen Ortiz-McGhee
Vice President of Investor Relations, Mayfield Gentry Realty Advisors
Posted: 10/29/11 11:03 AM ET
So as my career choices would belie, I am a passionate advocate for ethnically diverse-owned businesses. I believe in their ability to deliver excellence and enhanced efficiency, I believe in the importance of their success and vibrancy to the communities in which they operate and to the nation's economic health as a whole. And the statistics bear that out.
According to the Minority Business Development Agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce, people of diverse ethnicity are starting businesses at twice the national average, with women-owned businesses in that category leading the charge. This is important because those companies have also proven that they have a propensity for hiring a diverse labor base as well.
Full Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carmen-ortizmcghee/emerging-manager-programs_b_1037397.html
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Strength in Diversity—Large Corporations Find Working With Minority-Owned Firms Is Good Business
Workforce Management
February 2010
Companies that understand supplier diversity see it not as an expense to be trimmed in a slow economy, but as an investment in the future, a way to find new clients and an integral part of their business strategy. By John Rosenthal
Companies that understand supplier diversity see it not as an expense to be trimmed in a slow economy, but as an investment in the future, a way to find new clients and an integral part of their business strategy.
For these corporations, a diverse supply chain is as essential as marketing or product development.
For minority-owned businesses, meanwhile, corporate diversity programs can be a critical lifeline, especially in a down economy.
Crain’s Chicago Business, a sister publication of Workforce Management, asked minority-business advocates, business owners, academics and consultants to identify the major corporations with the best reputations for building and maintaining supplier diversity in the Chicago area. The results are hardly scientific, but offer a ground-level assessment of seven major Chicago companies viewed by many as going the extra mile to maintain diversity, even in hard times.
PepsiCo Since 2006, the Purchase, New York-based food and beverage conglomerate has been run by a woman of color, CEO Indra Nooyi. Many of the company’s core brands, including those with headquarters in Chicago such as Tropicana, Quaker Oats and Gatorade, count large numbers of minorities among their customers.
“Diversity is a selling point that strengthens the bottom line,” says Ernest Freeman, PepsiCo’s senior manager for supplier diversity.
Freeman says his goal is to increase the total dollar amount spent with diverse suppliers by double digits each year, a goal the company has met every year since 2003. In 2008, PepsiCo spent more than $1 billion with diverse suppliers, up more than 10 percent from 2007.
Full Story: http://www.workforce.com/archive/feature/27/01/43/index.php
February 2010
Companies that understand supplier diversity see it not as an expense to be trimmed in a slow economy, but as an investment in the future, a way to find new clients and an integral part of their business strategy. By John Rosenthal
Companies that understand supplier diversity see it not as an expense to be trimmed in a slow economy, but as an investment in the future, a way to find new clients and an integral part of their business strategy.
For these corporations, a diverse supply chain is as essential as marketing or product development.
For minority-owned businesses, meanwhile, corporate diversity programs can be a critical lifeline, especially in a down economy.
Crain’s Chicago Business, a sister publication of Workforce Management, asked minority-business advocates, business owners, academics and consultants to identify the major corporations with the best reputations for building and maintaining supplier diversity in the Chicago area. The results are hardly scientific, but offer a ground-level assessment of seven major Chicago companies viewed by many as going the extra mile to maintain diversity, even in hard times.
PepsiCo Since 2006, the Purchase, New York-based food and beverage conglomerate has been run by a woman of color, CEO Indra Nooyi. Many of the company’s core brands, including those with headquarters in Chicago such as Tropicana, Quaker Oats and Gatorade, count large numbers of minorities among their customers.
“Diversity is a selling point that strengthens the bottom line,” says Ernest Freeman, PepsiCo’s senior manager for supplier diversity.
Freeman says his goal is to increase the total dollar amount spent with diverse suppliers by double digits each year, a goal the company has met every year since 2003. In 2008, PepsiCo spent more than $1 billion with diverse suppliers, up more than 10 percent from 2007.
Full Story: http://www.workforce.com/archive/feature/27/01/43/index.php
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