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Nestlé Business Services
800 N. Brand Blvd.
Glendale , CA 91203 Karen Blackwell
(818) 549-6000
Karen. Blackwell@us.Nestlé.com
Manager Supplier Diversity and
Development
NBS Procurement
North America
Joset B. Wright, President
National Minority Supplier
Development Council
1040 Avenue of the Americas
2nd Floor
New York, New York 10018
Overview
The NMSDC Food and Beverage Industry Group had a very productive year in 2010. The
Industry Group members elected Karen Blackwell of Nestlé North America and Ernie
Freeman of PepsiCo Co-Chairs and Harry Perales, Campbell Soup as the Secretary for
2010-2011. The group focused on ways to increase its value to current active members and
ways to rekindle and engage inactive members which resulted in spirited discussions around
key opportunities for improvement. It was agreed upon that these ideas should be shared
with the NMSDC leadership, which resulted in our new President, Joset Wright, sharing her
vision with us at our October meeting.
Her insights were very valuable, as she shared that her goal is to implement a strategic
planning process in the next 18 months, which will entail hiring external resources to focus
on 23 planning areas, including:
A) Making NMSDC more responsive to the Industry groups
B) Using technology better and faster
C) Developing more scalable MBEs
D) Standardizing the local councils to create uniformity, efficiency and sustainability.
The group’s discussions at the July meetings centered around improving our Industry
group’s understanding of the regional and national MNSDC model—coupled with President
Wright’s vision—resulted in a reenergized Industry committee. This energy was
demonstrated through numerous peer communications covering diversity tracking, reporting
tools, sourcing requests and communication policies.
Industry Group Membership
2010 Co-Chair, Denise Thomas, Director of Corporate Supplier Diversity at Kroger,
undertook the task of reviewing our membership roster and removing members who had
been inactive for three or more years. This resulted in trimming our group back to 37 active
corporate members who met three times in 2010. The March virtual meeting and the July
and October traditional in-person meetings were spirited, engaging and informative. The
2010 meetings were hosted by Darden, Heinz, PepsiCo, Campbell’s Soup, ADM, Kroger and
McCormick. We will continue to have broad representation in 2011 when Burger King, Mars,
Brinker, Sodexho, Comcast, Cargill, Coca-Cola, MillerCoors, and Denny’s have agreed to
sponsor our meetings.
Subcommittees
All group members are asked to serve on one of the following subcommittees:
Industry Analysis
Professional Development
Diverse Supplier Enrichment
1) Industry Analysis Committee – Team Leader: Colleen Mayer, Manager Supplier Diversity
and Sustainable Development, MillerCoors
This subcommittee elected Eva Milko, Director of Procurement Development, MillerCoors
and Itu Oto, Supplier Diversity Manager of Mars SnackFood US as the team leaders.
The team changed its name to Industry Insights to identify ways Supplier
Diversity programs can be used to work across the vast Supply Chain to impact
the multi-cultural consumer.
Subcommittee Goal for 2011:
The team will focus on developing themes for the 3 phone calls over the year and
will identify best practices of our members which will be presented via online web
presentations and conference calls:
2) Professional Development Committee –Team Leader: Ernest Freeman, Senior Manager
Supplier Diversity, PepsiCo, Inc.
PepsiCo presented a demonstration of its sourcing tool and provided a follow up
PowerPoint to all F & B members.
o The best practice was the result of PepsiCo creating a solution to manage
sourcing diverse suppliers across multiple databases at their company.
Nestlé presented its virtual teleconference format, used at the 2009 NMSDC
conference that linked 14 buyers in 4 locations with 114 MBEs at the New
Orleans Conference.
o This format allowed for 63% of the companies who attended the event at
the NMSDC booth to be invited to participate in 2010 procurement
activities. http://supplierteleconference.nestleusa.com/
Subcommittee Goals for 2011:
The team will focus on finding and bringing ideas to raise the acumen of the SD
professional, i.e.:
ISM Supplier Diversity Certification Program overview via a Webinar
to group.
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Professional training beyond Supplier Diversity, i.e. How to be
considered for a Chief Diversity Officer position
3) Enrich Diverse Suppliers – Team Leader: James Momom; Director Supplier Diversity and
Business Development, General Mills
The members of the Enriching Diverse Suppliers subcommittee developed a shared
list of MBE suppliers across member companies. Recognizing that good companies
know and utilize good suppliers, the true power of this exercise was to create a list of
vendors that we’ve all had success with so that new opportunities could be created
for these strong performing MBEs.
To eliminate as many obstacles to participation as possible, the subcommittee
created an electronic survey for our members to complete and submit their strongest
performing MBEs. After several calls for participation, 40% of the F & B members
submitted the information for 142 Minority owned firms. The MBEs identified were
grouped into 18 purchasing categories and the resulting data disseminated as a PDF
file to the members who submitted companies for inclusion. At the October 2010
meeting, the members eagerly reviewed the committees work and commended the
group on successfully finishing a task that had been on the top of our committee’s
To-Do List, year after year.
A vote was taken and it was determined that the list would be shared with the entire
membership as a way to encourage full participation and to bring value as a
additional resource to F&B supplier diversity professionals who are consistently
challenged in being able to quickly respond to internal requests for MBEs to be
included in sourcing activities.
Subcommittee Goals for 2011:
The team will focus on expanding the list to identify stronger suppliers and to
promote their use by Industry Group members
Diverse Supplier Presentations
This year, the industry group decided to return to the practice of inviting high performing
MBEs to give 15 minute presentations at our meetings, and invited the following companies
to attend:
1) Coalescence – Custom Blending, Co-manufacturing of ingredients and flavors
2) XCL Services – provides a range of distribution and manufacturing services,
3) River City Furniture – Furniture Distributor/ Preferred Hawthorn dealership
4) SGM LLC
Industry Group Reception at the NMSDC 2011 Convention
This reception was held at the Red’s Steak House in Miami on Tuesday evening, the day
after the tradeshow, as a way to introduce best in class suppliers to the industry group
members. Each of the 15 industry group members who participated in planning and hosting
the event invited 8 of their top performing suppliers to join them to network with other highly
successful suppliers and supplier diversity professionals. The event was attended by 150
MBEs and corporate representatives in an informal environment designed to increase
meaningful interaction.
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2010 FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY GROUP MEMBERS*
Corporation Contact Email
1 Aramark Jessica Choi Choi-jessica@aramark.com
2 Archer Daniel Midland* Amber Potts amber.potts@adm.com
3 Ball Corporation* Bea Valdez bvaldez@ball.com
4 Brinker David Robinson david.robinson@brinker.com
5 Burger King Pat Williams pwilliams@whopper.com
6 Campbell Soup Harry Perales Harry_perales@campbellsoup.com
7 Cargill* John Taylor John_Taylor@cargill.com
8 Coca Cola* Valerie Nesbitt vnesbitt@cokecce.com
9 Conagra Angela Griffith angela.griffith@conagrafoods.com
10 Darden Patrick Hynes phynes@darden.com
11 DelMonte Lauren Waldorf Lauren.Waldorf@Delmonte.com
12 Denny’s Michelle Hunt mhunt@dennys.com
13 Disney Arnice Lamb arnice.lamb@disney.com
14 Food Buy Skyne Betha sbetha@foodbuy.com
15 General Mills James Momom james.momon@genmills.com
16 Hershey’s Diane Crawford dianecrawford@hersheys.com
17 Hilton Fed Lona Fred.Lona@hilton.com
18 HJHeinz Steve Burk Steve.Burk@us.hjheinz.com
19 Kellogg* Cathy Kutch cathy.kutch@kellogg.com
20 Kraft Vickie Hsi Vickie.Hsi@kraft.com
21 Kroger Denise Thomas denise.thomas@kroger.com
22 Mars Itu Out itu.otu@effem.com
23 McCain Foods Calvin Eakins calvin.eakins@mccain.com
24 McCormick Shelia Dew-Johnson sheila_dews-johnson@mccormick.com
25 Miller Coors Eva Milko eva.milko@millercoors.com
26 Nestle Karen Blackwell karen.blackwell@us.nestle.com
27 Quaker Oats Ernest Freeman ernest_freeman@quakeroats.com
28 Safeway Tim Williams tim.williams@safeway.com
29 Sara Lee* Cheryl Hamilton cherryl.hamilton@saralee.com
30 Sodexho* Darlene Fuller darlene.fuller@sodexo.com
31 SuperValu Mike Byron mike.byron@supervalu.com
32 Target Kathy Mazon Kathy.Mazon@target.com
33 Tyson Heather Chilson Heather.Chilson@tyson.com
34 UFPC/Yum Brands Richard Rugnao richard.rugnao@yum.com
35 Wendy’s Frances Wight frances_wright@wendys.com
36 Wrigley Donna Weterman Donna.Westerman@Wrigley.com
37 Yum Brands Inc. Renee Fromme renee_fromme@ufpc.com
* Member corporations with multiple committee representatives
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