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DETAILED FINDINGS

Top Benefits: Support Inequity Barriers, Community Empowerment, Authenticity

The top-rated benefits of a supplier diversity strategy for marketing/advertising:
• Proactively support and address inequity barriers

• Community empowerment and positive economic impact (for the community)
• More authentic connections as suppliers reflect the consumer base

Benefits (Top 2 Box)

Base: 68

Proactively support and address inequity barriers 88%
Community empowerment and positive economic impact (for the 87%
Community empowerment and positive economic impact
community) (for the community)
More authentic connections as suppliers reflect the consumer base 87%

Provides opportunities for business expansion with the emergence
Provides opportunities for business expansion with the emergence of 75%
new consumer needs based upon shifting demographics
of new consumer needs based upon shifting demographics
Promotes innovation: new products, services, and solutions 66%
Provides multiple channels from which to procure goods and services 59%

Drives competition (on price and service levels) between the 48%
Drives competition (on price and service levels) between
company’s existing and potential suppliers
the company’s existing and potential suppliers
Q: Please rate the potential benefits of a Supplier Diversity strategy for marketing/advertising.
(Rate on a scale of 1–5, where 1 = Least Important and 5 = Most Important.)

This question was asked of respondents who report having a supplier diversity strategy for
marketing/advertising as well as those who do not. It is interesting to note that the ranking
of the top benefits is the same for both groups.

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