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Quaker, a unit of PepsiCo Beverages & Foods, salutes and supports
supplier diversity.
We are proud to work with Minority-Owned and Women-Owned businesses
(M/WBE) as part of our commitment to diversity management.
 To
develop partnerships with certified Minority-Owned and
Women-Owned suppliers that bring value-added and measurable performance
in order to provide the
highest quality of goods and service to our customers in the most efficient
and effective manner.
We want to make a strong, positive effort to increase the dollar volume of
business with qualified M/WBE business firms and aggressively
work with them to help them meet Quaker’s purchasing
and service standards.
To consistently develop and implement programs that encourage qualified
and minority and women-owned businesses to do business with Quaker in areas
such as food manufacturing services, technology, transportation,
warehouse operations, construction, sales, marketing, advertising, employment,
banking, investments, insurance, pension management, professional/consultant
services, legal services, board representation and management, structure,
and commitment.
Quaker’s Supplier Diversity program has been recognized by the
NAACP, National Minority Business Council, and the League of Black Women
for its leadership role in providing new opportunities for M/WBE businesses.
A minority-owned business is a for-profit enterprise, regardless of
size, physically located in the United States or its trust
territories, which is owned, operated, and controlled by minority
group members. "Minority group members"are United States citizens who
are Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American. Ownership by minority
individuals means the business is at least 51% owned by such
individuals or, in the case of a publicly-owned business, at least
51% of the stock is owned by one or more such individuals. Further,
the management and daily operations are controlled by those minority
group members.
A U.S. citizen having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
A U.S. citizen whose origins are from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh,
Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines,
Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Trust Territories of the Pacific or the Northern
Marianas.
A U.S. citizen of true-born Hispanic heritage, from any of the Spanish-speaking
areas of Latin America or the following regions: Mexico, Central America,
South America and the Caribbean Basin only.
A person who is an American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut or Native Hawaiian,
and regarded as such by the community of which the person claims to
be a part. Native Americans must be documented members of a North American
tribe, band or otherwise organized group of native people who are indigenous
to the continental United States and proof can be provided through a
Native American Blood Degree Certificate (i.e., tribal registry letter,
tribal roll register number).
A woman-owned business is a for-profit enterprise, regardless of
size, physically located in the United States or its trust
territories, which is owned, operated, and controlled by non-ethnic
women members. Ownership by women members means:
- Fifty-one percent ownership by a woman or women.
- Proof of effective management of the business (operating
position, by-laws, hire-fire, and other decision-making role).
- Control of the business as evidenced by signature role on
loans, leases and contracts
- U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Resident Alien Status
A U.S. citizen who is a Caucasian female.
It is the policy of Quaker, a division of PepsiCo Beverages & Foods
that certified and certifiable Minority-Owned and
Women-Owned Businesses shall have the maximum practicable opportunity
to participate in the supplying of products and services to Quaker.
All Suppliers will, as a condition of seeking new or continued business
opportunities with Quaker, agree to use their best efforts to carry
out Quaker’s policy of Supplier Diversity through their awarding
subcontracts to minority and women-owned companies.
All Suppliers agree to establish and conduct a program that will enable
minority and women-owned businesses to be considered fairly
and equitably as subcontractors under all Quaker contracts.
Quaker only counts sub-contract expenditures resulting from products/services
paid with Quaker dollars and generated from Quaker contracts. Major
suppliers are not to include expenditures resulting from non-Quaker
contracts or government contracts not involving Quaker. M/WBE businesses
for whom expenditures are reported must meet certification criteria.
Click here to enter Supplier
Diversity Registration.
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