Company No. 4 On DiversityInc's 2007 Ranking Of Top Companies For Diversity
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March 21, 2007
The Coca-Cola Company came in at No. 4 on The
2007 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity®
list and performed well in two DiversityInc specialty
categories -- Top 10 Companies for Recruitment & Retention
(No. 5) and Top 10 Companies for Asian-Americans (No. 6).
A total of 317 companies competed for a spot, a 100 percent
increase in corporate participation in the Top 50 competition
over the last three years.
Now in its seventh year, The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies
for Diversity list is determined solely from a comprehensive
survey of diversity management that measures CEO commitment,
human capital, corporate communications and supplier diversity.
Key findings from The 2007 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies
survey:
- The Top 50 companies hire 42 percent people of color; the
U.S. workforce is 29 percent people of color*
- 25 percent of Top 50 companies' management are people of
color, compared with 12 percent people of color in management
nationwide*
- 100 percent of the Top 50 offer domestic-partner benefits
for same-sex couples, compared with 53 percent of Fortune
500 companies
- 74 percent of the Top 50 include gender orientation in their
nondiscrimination policies, compared with only 24 percent
of the Fortune 500*
- Top 50 companies spend 9.7 percent of their procurement
budgets with minority- and women-owned suppliers, compared
with just 2 percent nationally*
*Sources: The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
National Center for Education Statistics, Human Rights Campaign
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