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Specialty Lists: No. 6 on The Top 10 Companies for Latinos
Industry: Consumer Products
Main Competitors: Coca-Cola Enterprises
U.S. Headquarters: Somers, N.Y.
Number of U.S. Employees: 33,600
Annual Revenue: $13.6 billion
% of Operations Outside U.S.: 32 |
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Why It's on the Top 50: Extremely strong Corporate and Organizational Communications propel the bottler to the list, as well as its CEO Commitment.
Diversity Strengths: President and CEO Eric Foss chairs the diversity council and appoints its members and meets regularly with employee-resource groups.
The board of directors is 10 percent Black and 20 percent Latino, as well as 40 percent female. Nationally, boards are 13 percent non-white and 15 percent women. The Top 50 average is 23 percent non-white and 22 percent women.
Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) has an active mentoring program, with 30 percent of employees participating. The company also has first-rate work/life benefits, including a medical center, onsite dry cleaner, credit union and ATM, and a fitness center.
PBG has mandatory diversity training for its entire work force, and it is offered every month.
The company allocates 44 percent of its marketing budget to traditionally underrepresented groups, compared with a Top 50 average of 15 percent.
Eric Foss, President and CEO: "The customers we serve, the consumers who buy our products and the communities in which we do business have all become increasingly diverse. Having a diverse work force enables us to better understand the marketplace, which in turn fuels our success as a company."
John Berisford, Senior Vice President, Human Resources: "Diversity and inclusion are at the core of the PBG culture. We expect all of our employees to respect and value others regardless of their differences, and we evaluate their ability do so during our performance-review process. I'm proud that our employees have embraced these values and made PBG a great company to work for."
More DiversityInc Articles on Pepsi Bottling Group:
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Building Your Diversity Brand Webinar
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John Berisford
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