Yum! Brands Presents Inaugural Supplier Diversity Award to Recognize Diversity and Inclusion Leadership in Supply Chain
May 19 2015 - 1:15PM
Business Wire
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) presented its inaugural Supplier
Diversity Award to The BAMA Companies, Inc. (BAMA) at their annual
supply chain awards.
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Yum! Brands, Inc. presented its inaugural
Supplier Diversity Award to The BAMA Companies, Inc. at their
annual supply chain awards. (Photo: Business Wire)
The Supplier Diversity Award was created to honor a supplier
demonstrating significant leadership in the area of diversity and
inclusion. For more than 20 years, BAMA, a woman-owned business
enterprise, has been a leading and valued supplier of quality baked
goods to KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. They have demonstrated a
strong commitment to driving diversity and inclusion efforts in
their organization.
“We believe it’s critical to reflect the community’s diversity
in all that we do, including our supply chain. I’m pleased to
recognize BAMA with our first Supplier Diversity Award for their
outstanding contributions to our business, and for demonstrating
that diversity and inclusion is a business imperative,” said Greg
Creed, Chief Executive Officer, Yum! Brands, Inc.
Among its diversity and inclusion initiatives, the Company
is:
- Holding Unconscious Bias training,
hosted by James Fripp, Senior Director of Yum! Global Diversity
& Inclusion, and facilitated by Howard J. Ross, author and
thought leader on culture, leadership and innovation. The training
helped attendees be better employees and colleagues by reflecting
on what causes biases, acknowledging them and understanding how
they impact decision-making.
- Offering a Minority Lending Program to
diverse prospective franchisees, providing access to capital so
they may enter the system if they are otherwise qualified.
- Fostering Employee Resource Groups
(ERGs) in the areas of: International Professionals, LGBT
Professionals, Multicultural Professionals, Women Professionals and
Young Professionals. Additional ERGs will be created to meet the
interests and needs of employees.
- Celebrating World Day for Cultural
Diversity to raise awareness about the importance of inclusion,
understand different cultures and recognize the uniqueness of
people from different cultures, including Yum! employees
globally.
Visit http://www.yum.com/responsibility/diversity and
http://www.yumcsr.com/people/diversity.asp for more detail on
Yum!’s diversity and inclusion efforts.
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over
41,000 restaurants in more than 125 countries and territories. Yum!
is ranked #216 on the Fortune 500 List with revenues of over $13
billion. In 2014 Yum! was named one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies
for Leaders in North America. The Company's restaurant brands -
KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - are the global leaders of the
chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. Outside the
United States, the Yum! Brands system opens over five new
restaurants per day on average, making it a leader in international
retail development.
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