COMPANIES FOR
DIVERSITY
No. 13 SODEXHO INC.
Richard Macedonia,
CEO and President
Specialty Lists:
No. 9 on the Top 10 Companies
for African Americans
Industry: Hospitality, Food Service
Main Competitors: Aramark, Compass
Group USA
U.S. Headquarters: Gaithersburg, Md.
Number of U.S. Employees:
110,000
Annual Revenue: $6.7 billion
Rohini Anand,
Senior Vice President
and Global Chief
Diversity Officer
WHY IT’S ON THE TOP 50: One of
the most aggressive diversity leaders in
the United States, Sodexho Inc. has
made a very visible and focused commitment to its diversity initiatives,
with direct involvement from CEO
and President Richard Macedonia.
Top 50 CEOs do this) and has
strong ties to the National Urban
League (only 30 percent of Top 50
CEOs have leading positions in
multicultural nonprofits). Sodexho
has strong employee-resource
groups and mandatory diversity
training for the entire work force
( 58 percent of Top 50 companies
have this) that lasts a full day and is
held every month. The company
gets a perfect score for its web site’s
demonstrated commitment to
diversity. It also has strong supplier
diversity, with 11 percent of Tier I
procurement going to minority-and women-owned suppliers.
DIVERSITY STRENGTHS: CEO and
President Richard Macedonia chairs
the diversity council ( 54 percent of
RECENT DIVERSITY SUCCESS:
Sodexho currently partners with
more than 2,500 diverse suppliers.
No. 14 PROCTER & GAMBLE
Specialty Lists:
No. 5 on the Top 10 Companies
for People With Disabilities
No. 9 on the Top 10 Companies
for Asian Americans
No. 9 on the Top 10 Companies
for Recruitment & Retention
Industry: Consumer Products
Main Competitors: Johnson & Johnson,
Kimberly-Clark and Unilever
U.S. Headquarters: Cincinnati, Ohio
Number of U.S. Employees:
34,687
Annual Revenue: $68.2 billion
of Operations Outside U.S.:
50
force, and its emphasis on people
with disabilities in the workplace
and the marketplace.
DIVERSITY STRENGTHS: Mandatory
diversity training for the entire
work force (only 58 percent of the
Top 50 have this) held for a full
day every month. Very strong
employee-resource groups and
work/life benefits.
A.G. Lafley,
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive
WHY IT’S ON THE TOP 50: A long-time national diversity leader,
P&G is known for its extremely
strong multicultural-marketing initiatives, the diversity of its work
RECENT DIVERSITY SUCCESS: In
April 2005, P&G held a first-of-its-kind International Festival. The
event took place in 20 P&G venues
around the world as a global forum
for all employees worldwide.
Maxine Brown-Davis,
Manager of
Global Diversity
