Supplier Diversity

We provide opportunities for minority, women-owned enterprises, and other diverse-owned businesses to be exposed to a broader audience of potential customers and best practices by partnering with food retail companies.

Supplier Diversity Next/Best Practices Guide

Supplier Diversity Best Practice GuideThis guide captures FMI Supplier Diversity Committee members' industry insights, best practices, and lessons learned. The member committee has a wealth of talent and showcases the varied experiences across the food industry from both large and small companies on how supplier diversity is important to them and how they have incorporated it into their business practices.

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FMI Supplier Diversity Resources

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Grocery Shopper Snapshot - January 2025

This brief report provides an update on shoppers' expectations for the year ahead, evolving grocery habits and the role of technology in grocery shopping.
Hispanic Grocery Shopper

Grocery Shopper Snapshot: Hispanic Edition

This brief report provides insight into Hispanic grocery shopping habits, including attitudes, behaviors and purchase drivers.
The Food Retailing Industry Speaks

The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2024

The food industry is experiencing enormous change. The latest version of The Food Retailing Industry Speaks relays many shifting developments and describes how the industry has worked hard to make progress in the face of all this change.
U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends

U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2024: Finding Value

Beyond price and quality, shoppers define value to include relevance, convenience and experience.
U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends: Online

U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2024: Online Shopping

This report follows the evolving digital shopping landscape as shoppers strive to balance needs for convenience, savings, discovery and experience.
Supplier Diversity Best Practice Guide

Supplier Diversity Next/Best Practices Guide

This guide captures supplier diversity best practices in the food industry by engaging FMI Supplier Diversity Committee members to share their industry insights, best practices, and lessons learned.

FMI Supplier Diversity Study 2016 - 2017

The insights gleaned from this study reinforce supplier diversity as a business imperative and clarify the importance of such efforts to job creation, business expansion, community efforts, philanthropy, taxes, sustainability and mentorship.

Impacting Sales: A Holistic Approach to Supplier Diversity In the Food Retail Industry

Envisioned by FMI’s Supplier Diversity Committee, this report provides statistical data, background information and examples of practical ways food retailers can leverage Supplier Diversity as a means of growing sales.
Supplier Diversity Committee

Leadership

The FMI Supplier Diversity Committee’s mission is to establish and share best practices to further enhance, develop and promote the growth of minority/women and other diverse owned business enterprises interested in working within the food retail industry. In addition, the committee works to provide a platform for these business enterprises to gain exposure to a broader audience of potential customers.

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Supplier Diversity Committee Member Portal