For the second year, Ahold USA has been named to Diversity Business.com's "Top 50 Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities," moving up five spots from last year to rank 42 in the United States.
Ahold USA, the parent company of Giant Food Stores, will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com's 12th annual Multicultural Business Conference in April in Mashantucket, Conn.
The list was produced by DiversityBusiness.com, a national multicultural business-to-business website. More than 1.2 million businesses were asked to answer 10 questions about diversity in the marketplace. Their answers were based on factors such as volume, consistency and quality business opportunities granted to women and minority-owned companies.
"Diversity is an important part of our business and we regularly work with women and minority-owned businesses to develop supplier opportunities for the mutual success of both organizations," said Jeff Martin, executive vice president, merchandising and marketing for Ahold USA.
For the past five years, Ahold USA and its supermarket divisions have hosted a Supplier Diversity/Regional and Small Business Trade Show with a goal of strengthening the connection between agricultural, minority and retail industries, the company said in a news release.
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