Announcing America’s Top 50 Corporations for Multicultural Business Opportunities
Immediate Release | Southport, CT
Southport, CT, February 18, 2019/- Today, OMNIKAL announced the Omni50 Award Winners, which are the top 50 US corporations who are awarding the most business to entrepreneurs from the growing culturally diverse marketplace. These same corporations are also successfully appealing to the growing Millennial Generation, which, by 2020, will be the largest and most diverse market segment in America.
Northrop Grumman Corporation was named the #1 Organization for Multicultural Business Opportunities in the United States. Other companies at the top of the winners list include: Walmart Inc., Apple Inc., Raytheon Company, IBM, Toyota Motor Company, General Motors Company and Comcast Corporation.
A special awards celebration for all honorees will take place on Thursday, May 16th from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. in New York City during Omnikal’s “2019 AWARDS LUNCHEON.”
The view the complete list: 2019 Omni50
Who are the Omni50?
The Omni50 represents the voice of OMNIKAL’s 2,100,000 members. The list is circulated by over 1000 organizations, which reaches millions of consumers every year. Since 1999, it has become a highly valued metric of excellence in reaching the diverse and inclusive majority marketplace.
The Omni50 Awards is the most recognized honor for diversity and inclusion in the country. These award-winning companies truly differentiate themselves in the marketplace in a time when inclusion has become one of the most important goals of every organization. It is also at a time when public recognition is key to ongoing financial, ethical, social and cultural success.
“The inclusion practices of the “Omni50” Awardees have changed the course of our current economy and as a result, the world as we know it” said Kenton Clarke, CEO of OMNIKAL. “The changing multicultural and multi-generational landscape of our country has demanded this evolution. OMNIKAL is proud to have been a force in the business world for such positive change. Our mission and goal is to equalize, broaden and level the playing field for both brands and an increasingly varied vendor/supplier marketplace.”
Top Honors for Top Organizations Who Do the Right Thing
Most “top” lists honor companies for traditional economic growth, shareholder returns and similar metrics; however, the Omni50 awards are an indicator of which organizations provide the best business opportunities to the increasingly inclusive majority marketplace. This, in turn, influences more organizations, as they compete for market share in multicultural and multigenerational communities.
The Business Power of Inclusion
As the culturally diverse market gains more buying power, corporations have to focus their efforts on rebranding and reorganizing to avoid losing market share and to remain current and relevant.
The Omni50 list has therefore become the most critical guide for businesses as well as consumers. “As a business owner, I appreciate the business we receive from corporate buyers; and in turn, when I buy either personally or for my company, I am more likely to buy from the same companies that support my business or are supporting businesses like mine,” said Kathy Steele, principle of Red Caffeine headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois.
| Top 50 Corporations | Top 50 Corporations | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Northrop Grumman Corporation | MetLife, Inc. | ||
| Walmart Inc. | Prudential Financial | ||
| Apple Inc. | Nestlé | ||
| Comcast Corporation | Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company | ||
| IBM | New York Life Insurance Company | ||
| Toyota Motor Corporation | Pfizer Inc. | ||
| General Motors Company | Cardinal Health | ||
| Raytheon Company | CVS Health | ||
| The Coca-Cola Company | Molson Coors | ||
| AT&T Inc. | The Home Depot, Inc. | ||
| Bank of America | Capital One Financial Corporation | ||
| PepsiCo Inc. | Fannie Mae | ||
| Colgate-Palmolive Company | Kellogg Company | ||
| The Kroger Company | Pacific Gas & Electric | ||
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | AARP | ||
| Altria Group | Starbucks Corporation | ||
| Verizon | |||
| Hilton Worldwide | Intel Corporation | ||
| Target Corporation | Nike | ||
| WarnerMedia | Merck & Company, Inc. | ||
| Lockheed Martin | The Procter & Gamble Company | ||
| JPMorgan Chase & Company | Compass Group USA | ||
| United Parcel Service | Bristol-Myers Squibb | ||
| The Boeing Company | Major League Baseball | ||
| Walgreens | |||
| Ford Motor Company | PricewaterhouseCoopers | ||
| Wells Fargo | Kaiser Permanente | ||
| Citigroup Inc. | ADP, LLC | ||
| Avis Budget Group | Royal Dutch Shell |
ABOUT Omnikal
OMNIKAL was founded in 1999. Now the Nation’s largest inclusive business organization, OMNIKAL promotes entrepreneurship and the belief that entrepreneurs create real world solutions to today’s business and economic challenges. By fostering deeper and broader collaboration between business owners and entrepreneurial support organizations, the OMNIKAL network fuels healthier ecosystems through job creation, professional development and drives innovation resulting in strong economic growth.
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