The NGLCC's Supplier Diversity Initiative has set the stage for yet another successful partnership between a certified LGBTBE and an NGLCC corporate partner, who have teamed up to provide office products and services to businesses, corporations and individual customers.
OutSmart Office Solutions, a certified LGBTBE, will become a distributor of Office Depot products throughout the United States.
"This particular strategic alliance will give Office Depot the opportunity to extend the capabilities of an established LGBTBE," said Frantz Tiffeau Jr., senior manager of supply chain diversity for Office Depot, an NGLCC corporate partner. "We enter into these diverse relationships to provide our customers with the best of both worlds; the flexibility and personalized touch that a small organization can provide, along with the distribution capabilities and breadth of product that they would expect from a global office solutions provider."
The Tier One partnership will provide an efficient, integrated office products solution for large-scale corporations and customers within the LGBT and women-owned business communities.
OutSmart President and CFO Dawn Ackerman and OutSmart CEO George Pieper issued a joint statement: "As an LGBTBE and strong supporter of the NGLCC Supplier Diversity Initiative, we are thrilled to be the first to form a Tier One Supplier Diversity Partnership with Office Depot. Now we can offer corporate America the opportunity to fulfill their supplier diversity goals, as well as help to strengthen the 'equality economy.'"
"This is one more example of the opportunities made available to LGBT-owned companies that are a part of the NGLCC's Supplier Diversity Initiative," said Victoria Fulkerson, vice president of corporate relations and supplier diversity at the NGLCC. "There are so many amazing connections available for LGBT companies—from corporate connections and educational opportunities to finding other LGBT business owners who want to do business with one another. This partnership [between OutSmart and Office Depot] is further proof that those who invest the time will find success."
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