MIAMI & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits (Southern Glazer's)—the world’s preeminent distributor of beverage alcohol—today announced the launch of its Vendor Inclusion Program (VIP), designed to develop, facilitate, and manage non-trade vendor diversity initiatives. The program’s mission is to create an inclusive and sustainable vendor base that reflects the diversity of Southern Glazer’s employees, suppliers, customers, and consumers.
“Southern Glazer’s is committed to working with qualified top-tier vendors, regardless of race, sex, gender or any other socioeconomic status,” said Mark Calimlim, Vice President, Corporate Procurement, Southern Glazer’s. “VIP will ensure that vendors that identify as diverse have an equitable opportunity to provide non-trade goods and/or services to the Company.”
As a beverage alcohol distributor, Southern Glazer’s makes a distinction between business relationships that are considered ‘vendors’ from those designated as ‘suppliers.’ Suppliers refer to alcohol brands and industry trade partners, i.e., beverage alcohol brands and producers of wines, spirits, beer, liquors, whiskeys, CBD, etc. and other business models that directly impact Southern Glazer’s commercial trade. Businesses that provide goods and/or services offering to support the operations, facilities and other such non-trade business functions for Southern Glazer’s and its supplier partners may be considered vendors.
New potential vendors for all goods and services can now register on the Southern Glazer’s Vendor Registration Portal where information for potential vendors across all categories purchased is collected and housed. This offers Southern Glazer’s business units and supplier partners more options for existing opportunities and a more diverse and competitive pool of vendors for new opportunities.
The VIP initiative is a collaborative endeavor that stemmed from the Southern Glazer’s internal diversity and inclusion idea competition, Idea Distillery, in 2020. Southern Glazer’s recognizes the intrinsic value of diversity in an ever-evolving marketplace and desires to support small and diverse businesses in communities where the Company operates.
Any business interested in opportunities to provide non-trade goods and/or services for Southern Glazer’s may register in the portal here: SGWS Vendor Registration Portal.
About Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits
Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is the world’s preeminent distributor of beverage alcohol, and proud to be a multi-generational, family-owned company. The Company has operations in 44 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Canada. In 2021, Southern Glazer’s was selected as a U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, as well as named by Newsweek as a Top 100 Most Loved Workplace. Southern Glazer’s urges all retail customers and adult consumers to market, sell, serve, and enjoy its products responsibly. For more information visit www.southernglazers.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @sgwinespirits.
